Cote d'Ivoire: Arrest Of Demobilized Spokesperson

The spokesman of a group of demobilized ex-combatants Diomonde Megbe was arrested Friday, May 26 in Bouake while he was at the CHU to visit some of his comrades wounded during incidents with the police who made 5 dead on Tuesday at the southern entrance of the city.

Cote d'Ivoire: The Results Are Heavier After The Anger Of The Demobilized

A patrol of the Ivorian security forces in Bouaké on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, after the incidents that occurred on the same day around a demonstration of demobilized ex-rebels.

Bouake is definitely not out of the spiral of violence: after the mutineers last week, the "demobilized" (former rebels not reinstated in the army) claim in turn bonuses. About 6,000 of them, according to their own count, each claims 18 million CFA francs (27,000 euros). On Tuesday morning in Bouake, clashes turned into a tragedy, while the demobilized blocked the southern access of the second city of the country. A seriously injured person died at midday in the hospital, bringing to four the number of ex-rebels killed.

Cote d'Ivoire: Serious Turmoil Linked To Financial Demands

Street scene in Bouake, Ivory Coast (photo of illustration).

A mutiny that shook all the major cities of the country last week, violent and murderous clashes that opposed ex-rebels with the police on Tuesday 23 May, Cote d'Ivoire is currently going through a serious A zone of turbulence linked to repeated financial demands. And we do not know how far it will go.

Cote d'Ivoire: 3 Dead After An Angry Movement Of The Demobilized In Bouake

Checkpoint held by mutineers in Bouake, 15 May 2017

In Côte d'Ivoire, it was believed the last crisis of mutineers refused, but it was not counting the demobilized, these ex-rebels, who were not integrated into the army and who also claim bonuses. In Bouake, it turned out bad Tuesday morning. At least three demobilized soldiers died and about 20 were wounded when security forces tried to dislodge them from the southern entrance to the city.

Côte d'Ivoire: The Bitterness Of The Ex-combatants Demobilized From Bouake

On Thursday 18 May, the Ivorian Chief of Staff, General Sekou Touré, traveled to Bouake. He met with formerly demobilized ex-combatants and went to the hospital at the bedside of the wounded of the mutinies of the last days, as well as in the family of the demobilized who was killed on Monday by a mutineer and whose funerals Place on Monday.

Mutiny In Cote d'Ivoire: Lessons For The Government

After four days of crisis throughout the country, the Ivorian state will pay the balance of premiums promised last January to the mutineers. But in addition to the lost time, these events will remain as a waste in terms of image for the country and above all will lastingly abolish the pact of confidence between the Ivory Coast and its army.

Cote d'Ivoire: Satisfied, Mutineers Return To Barracks

In Bouake, the mutineers abandoned the southern entrance corridor to the policemen they had hunted on Friday. "They pass us the relay with a good heart," assures the policeman Eugene Koffi, handling the portcullis. "We're going to keep the corridor the way it used to be."
'The population suffers'

Cote d'Ivoire: Minister Of Defense Announces Agreement With Mutineers

On the fourth day of the mutiny in Côte d'Ivoire, the Minister of Defense announced on Monday evening 15th on the Ivorian radio-TV (RTI) that an agreement had been reached with the military, but without specifying the modalities. The statement circulated to RTI lasted less than 2 minutes.

Cote d'Ivoire: Situation Still Uncertain In Bouake

In Cote d'Ivoire, the regular armed forces moved closer to Bouaké in order to weigh on the mutineers who continue, with shots in the air and terror on the populations, to claim outstanding premiums.