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Fraternite Matin: The Special Representative of UN Secretary-General for Cote d'Ivoire, Mrs. Aichatou Mindaoudou has said the former ruling FPI party is willing to take part in political dialogue. She was speaking after a meeting last Saturday with officials of the FPI who were released from…

Le Nouveau Courrier: The Ivorian Women's Network for Reconciliation has adopted recommendations aimed at speeding up the national reconciliation process. At the end of a meeting in Abidjan on Sunday, the Network forwarded recommendations to the President of the national Commission for Dialogue…

The people of Kombolokoura, 603 km north of Abidjan, were the target of a sensitization campaign carried out by the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire to promote social cohesion and create awareness on the need to send girls to school. After explaining the mandate of the UN Mission, personnel…

The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire and head of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), Mrs Aïchatou Mindaoudou, on Sunday, 18 August 2013, took part in a ceremony to conclude a series of meetings on the role of women in the national…

The 10th anniversary of the World Humanitarian Day was commemorated on 19 August in Côte d'Ivoire and the rest of the world. This date was chosen by the UN General Assembly in remembrance of the 19 August 2003 attack on the UN HQ in Baghdad, Iraq in which 22 people died. The humanitarian community…

The bi-monthly tripartite meeting between the heads of the Force of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), Force Licorne and the Forces Républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire (FRCI) took place on Tuesday, 20 August 2013, at the Mission's headquarters in Abidjan. UNOCI Force Commander General…

L'Intelligent d'Abidjan: The bi-monthly tripartite meeting of the military chiefs of the Ivorian Armed Forces, the UNOCI Force and the French Force Licorne took place on Tuesday 20 August to review the security situation in Cote d'Ivoire and discuss the training of members of the Ivorian Army. Nord…

"We now understand better the values of peace, peaceful resolution of conflicts, human rights and the rights of the child," declared Ouattara Abdoulaye, the chief of Sandegue village, 438 km northeast of Abidjan, after a public meeting organized in the village on 16 August 2013 by the United Nations…

The Special Representative for the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire and head of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), Mrs Aïchatou Mindaoudou, on Wednesday, 21 August 2013, received a delegation of religious leaders led by the Archbishop of Abidjan, Monsignor Jean…

Fraternite Matin: Some 448 soldiers of UNOCI's Senegalese battalion were recently decorated with UN medals in Yamoussoukro by UNOCI Force Commander, General Mohammed Asi Iqbal. Senegal has been contributing troops to the UN since 1960. Nord-Sud : The Mayor of Daloa, Samba Coulibaly has requested the…

The Force Commander of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), General Muhammad Iqbal Asi, on Wednesday, 21 August 2013, decorated 488 soldiers from the 13th Senegalese Battalion with the United Nations Medal. The ceremony took place at the Jean Paul II Square in Yamoussoukro in the…

L'Inter: UNOCI has granted financial assistance worth CFA 15 million francs (30,000 USD) to ex-combatants in Korhogo who were selected for the commercial tricycle project organised by the national Authority for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (ADDR). Some 399 ex-combatants will receive…