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Dimbokro, 29 August2009...The UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) conducted two training seminars in « Human Rights and the Law Enforcement » for about 60 gendarmes and police officers from the Daoukro and Dimbokro areas on 26 and 28 August respectively. The seminars are part of a national…

Divo, 31 August 2009...The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) participated, on 29 August 2009 in Divo, in a ceremony marking the end of a football tournament for peace organized by the Coordination of New Forces (FN) of Sud Bandama region. The tournament, which was under the theme of…

Abidjan, 31 August 2009...Youths of the Santé I District, in the Abidjan commune of Attecoubé, organized a sports and cultural day on 29 August in order to seal their reconciliation with their peers of the neighboring district of Boribana. The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) used…

Abidjan, 10 September 2009... The Principal Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Côte d'Ivoire, Abou Moussa, signed, on Thursday 10 September 2009, an agreement under which the National Council for Audiovisual Communication (CNCA) has awarded the 96 MHz frequency to the UN…

Abidjan, 7 September 2009... The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Mr. Y. J. Choi, received on Monday 7 September, at the headquarters of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), a Japanese delegation now in Côte d'Ivoire to do a preliminary study…

Gagnoa, 22 September 2009... The populations of Kéi-Gbahi, a village situated 25 kms from Ouragahio, organized on Saturday 19 September 2009, a thanksgiving ceremony in honour of the UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI). The event followed the rehabilitation by the UN mission of two school…

Abidjan, 22 September 2009... The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y. J. Choi, received the new Chairperson of the Constitutional Council, Paul Yao N'Dré, on Tuesday, less than one month after the latter was sworn in. "We came to lay the foundations for…

"If general indifference keeps conflicts going, we are forced to admit that total awareness is needed to restore peace", the Principal Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Abou Moussa, said on Friday 18 September at a round table at the headquarters of the UN…

Abidjan, 23 September 2009... The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y. J. Choi, on Wednesday, 23 September 2009, in Abidjan, opened the third meeting of heads of office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in West Africa. On this occasion, he spoke about…

Duekoué, 24 September 2009... The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) has built the first primary school in Dedjean, a village situated 36 kms from the western town of Bloléquin. The handing over of the keys of a three-classroom school building and latrines to the Secretary-General of…

Abidjan, 24 September 2009... The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) has agreed to transport electoral equipment stocked in Abidjan port to warehouses in Yamoussoukro and Abidjan, the Mission Spokesman, Hamadoun Touré, announced on Thursday. Speaking during UNOCI's weekly press…

Guiglo, 24 September 2009... The Principal Deputy Special Representative of the United nations Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Abou Moussa, on Thursday, in Guiglo, took part in a medal parade ceremony for 427 soldiers from the 11th Beninois contingent of the United Nations Operation in Côte d…