The violence in Côte d'Ivoire, which is plunged into a serious political crisis since the presidential elections of 28 November, two hundred and ten have died since mid-December, announced Thursday, Jan. 6 an official of the UN in Abidjan. While the previous report dated December 30 was as of one hundred and seventy to nine dead, there were "thirty-one people died" since then, bringing the total to "two hundred and ten dead," he told a Simon Munzu press briefing, Chief of the Division of Human Rights of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI).This assessment includes the fourteen deaths recorded earlier in the week following communal violence in Duekoue, city located in western countries, he said. "We believe that what happened in Duekoue is a reflection of the trend toward tensions, communal violence," said Munzu.
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