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Defense News - Ivory Coast |
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Thursday
, January 20, 2011, 12:35 PM |
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has decided to send an additional 2,000 troops in Ivory Coast. |
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The UN
has decided to send an additional 2000 troops to bolster
its force in Ivory Coast, citing “deep concern over
the continuing violence and human rights violations.” |
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Bangladeshi UN soldiers sit on top of armoured vehicles
during a patrol in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
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The news comes as a fifth round of mediation talks collapsed.
Alassane Ouattara is considered to have won the vote but
incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo is refusing to step
down.
Chief negotiator and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga
warned that time is running out and blamed Gbagbo for
reneging on an agreement to withdraw his troops from around
the hotel in Abidjan where Ouattara, his rival, is holed
up.
The regional ECOWAS group met yesterday to discuss military
intervention to oust Gbagbo. But opinion is divided. Some
say Gbagbo knows this, and so does not consider force
to be a threat. Since December 2010, approximately 250
people found death in Ivory Coast, following engagements
between the partisans of Gbagbo and Quattara. According
to some media’s, since January 18th, 2011, several
armored vehicles and tanks arrived in the town of Bouaké,
stronghold of the rebels. All these vehicles were accompanied
by Burkinabe and Senegalese soldiers.
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