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TechnoratiGbagbo's youths to seize Ouattara HQ on New Year's day
A lieutenant of Côte d’Ivoire’s incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo has vowed that the country’s youth will seize rival Alassane Ouattara's headquarters on 1 January in an uprising.
"From January 1, I, Charles Ble Goude and the youth of Côte d’Ivoire are going to liberate the Golf Hotel with our bare hands," the leader of Gbagbo's radical Young Patriots told a cheering crowd in Abidjan on Wednesday.
"It's the moment to liberate Côte d’Ivoire," he declared.
Ouattara, who has been recognised as the country’s president by the international community, has taken refuge with his shadow government in Abidjan's Golf Hotel, since November’s disputed election.
The hotel is currently protected by an 800-strong force of UN peacekeepers and by former rebel fighters.
Ble Goude was placed under UN sanctions after fuelling violent anti-French riots in 2004.
He had cancelled a large-scale street rally planned for Wednesday, saying he wanted Côte d’Ivoire’s political stand-off to be resolved by regional diplomacy.
Both the incumbent and Ouattara claim to be the winner of Côte d’Ivoire’s 28 November election run-off.
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UN and France are greedy
Am sorry for what The US and France is doing underground over this issue.The UN have fail thus why they are using the African leaders against Gbagbo.UN and France would be disgraced and is only inferiority that is making African leaders to respond to this kind of rubesh from greedy foreign powers because they want their lots in foreign banks to be safe
Cbagbo is behaving like his
Cbagbo is behaving like his old power hungry african leaders (Isayas of eritrea, meles of ethiopia, kibaki of kenya, mugabe of zimbabwe and museveni of uganda) who do not want to listen to the will of their people. It is time for african leaders like the SA, Ghana, nigeria and others to act to bring such bad behavior to an end.
I pity this young man
It pains me to see a young man destroy his future the way this Charles man is doing. I wonder why somebody like Laurant Gbago who claims to be an intelligent politician should even associate himself with these kind of people. Charles is a rebel in disguised and should be put to jail for public riot against an elected president. He wants to kill fellow Ivorians by asking them to storm the Gulf hotel because he knows very well that UN forces would defend Outara and so casualties.
President Gbagbo
jean you must to be stupid, Gbagbo remain the elected leader of our beloved country ans so shall it be, while Charle is legal youth minister, and please shpe well your mouth and learned how to address a Minister.
Gbagbo
He is trying despirately but nobody is listening to him so this is a futile act on his part