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Hundreds of women demonstrated in Côte d'Ivoire Tuesday to protest the deaths of seven women killed last week in a rally against Laurent Gbagbo, who has refused to step down as president, despite international recognition of his challenger Alassane Ouattara as the winner of November’s election. Gbagbo’s party, meanwhile, said that he will not take part in African Union-mediated talks with Ouattara, and would send someone else.
Protesters in the Women's Day demonstrations chanted slogans against Gbagbo, who they blame for Thursday’s deadly shootings of seven women who were showing support for Ouattara.
Gbagbo’s supporters deny being involved in the killings, which took place in Abobo, a pro-Ouattara district of Abidjan.
Residents reported demonstrations in towns in the north of the country, in an area under control of the New Forces, a former rebel army now allied with Ouattara.
Meanwhile, Gbagbo’s Ivorian Popular Front party (FPI) said it would send party leader Pascal Affi N’Guessan and foreign minister Alcide Djedje to Addis Ababa to take part in AU-mediated talks with Ouattara in Addis Ababa.
The FPI said Gbagbo would not attend, because he does not want to leave Côte d'Ivoire "because of the deterioration of the domestic security situation”.
The African Union invited both men to its headquarters for talks to try to end the presidential crisis.
Ouattara will attend the meeting, which will include the presidents of Mauritania, South Africa, Chad, Burkina Faso and Tanzania.
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Ivory Coast
Your reporting of the conflict in Ivory Coast is biased. It is clear that RFI like many other international news media has aligned itself against President Laurent Gbagbo? I am wondering WHY you have chosen to feed your audience biased news about this conflict.
WHY can't you report what has happened in the elections instead of repeating the lies of the so called international community. Why can't you say that there were really no elections in Ivory Coast or that they were hijacked by the armed rebellion that supports Alassane Ouattara?
In my opinion, you can get away with this reporting because people in the West don't care about a small country like Ivory Coast to seek the truth and therefore will believe what ever they are told by the international media and community. The main objective being to put someone agreeable to the West in power in Ivory Coast to better control the ressources of this country.
By the way, are you aware that the seven women who supposedly were killed in Abobo resuscited (at least one of them) according to a video of the event posted on You Tube?
Thank you for feeding us lies on Ivory Coast.
THIS IS EXACTLY TRUE WHAT
THIS IS EXACTLY TRUE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING !
Oh yes, the west does care
Oh yes, the west does care when specific interests are in play; the west flip-flop depending on where their interests are most served. Just recently, the Libyan president was their worst nightmare, then they got the compensation for the lockerbie victims, billions and suddenly Gadhafi was no longer the worse person on earth; he even sent some of his military stff to visit western army equipment, getting ready for big deals, oh yes, libya has money and companies like Chevron are dying for those resources; then suddenly the mood changed in the middle east, and after tunisia and Egypt, the same west who was on Gadhafi behind changed the language again, UN mandate to secure a no-fly zone, but we all know that the real mandate is to kill the defiant colonel, he has really mocked the west and they are trying to prove their case. Sarkhozy is showing the french military stardom, bravo, but no matter what they say, they are hungry for the natural resources than they cannot have in their clean world, they flip-flop, in another language we say "2 poids, 2 mesures". What's a pity....