.- The fighting is widespread today in Abidjan, which was turned into a ghost town where few people ventured out into the street while gunshots were heard in several neighborhoods. While the self Abidjan Invisible Command, which supports Alassane Ouattara, President-elect considered by the international community gives the reply to the attacks of the forces of Laurent Gbagbo, who refuses to leave power, tens of thousands of refugees leave west of the country.
Today, the violence reached the headquarters of the Republican Security Company (CRS), a special police unit that supports Gbagbo, in the suburb of Williamsville, located in the area of \u200b\u200bAdjamé, where Ouattara has majority support. "Since morning we could not leave, because they have been firing all the time", said by telephone mechanic Adjamé neighbor, who said she could not go to work and added: "In the afternoon, some stores have been looted and emptied of goods.
" According to him, because of the shooting, many motorists who tried in the morning to go to their places of work could not reach and had to return home. According to a military source said, the Defence Forces and Security (FDS), which support the Gbagbo administration, face insurgents who back Ouattara, from Tuesday to try to take control of the neighborhood and drive out National Police.
The Attecoube neighborhood was also the scene of violent incidents and the police station was burned area, according to sources close to the Mayor's neighborhood. The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) reported today that 18 people were injured yesterday in Attecoube grenade explosions.
In Abobo, the main stronghold of Ouattara in Abidjan and has been the target of the bloodiest attacks of the SDS, militias and mercenaries of Gbagbo last three months, six people were killed yesterday in new shootings, while the Invisible Command maintains control of the neighborhood. A Muslim imam was killed today in Port Bouet, in the district of Yopougon, an area dominated by Gbagbo's supporters, witnesses said.
The generalization of the fighting has meant that schools do not open today, as companies and shops have closed and the vast majority of people do not leave their houses. After the speech last night offered Ouattara Gbagbo government to participate in a merger, if you hand the presidency, is expected intervention of his rival, who has already announced he will not abandon power.
For its part, according to a statement released today by the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an increase in the intensity of fighting in Abidjan and in western Ivory Coast, "along with the political impasse in which it is immersed the nation, is having serious repercussions on the population.
" The fighting in the west, between the SDS Gbagbo and the New Forces (Forces now Republican), former rebels were not disarmed after the civil war that control northern Iraq, who back Ouattara, "are causing renewed displacement and are creating a situation of great insecurity, "said MSF.
"In Liberia there are more than 82 000 refugees, of which 45 000 have arrived in the last three weeks", adds MSF, warning that failure drug delivery and "both victims of violence as the remaining patients found it increasingly difficult to access health care. " 
Today, the violence reached the headquarters of the Republican Security Company (CRS), a special police unit that supports Gbagbo, in the suburb of Williamsville, located in the area of \u200b\u200bAdjamé, where Ouattara has majority support. "Since morning we could not leave, because they have been firing all the time", said by telephone mechanic Adjamé neighbor, who said she could not go to work and added: "In the afternoon, some stores have been looted and emptied of goods.
" According to him, because of the shooting, many motorists who tried in the morning to go to their places of work could not reach and had to return home. According to a military source said, the Defence Forces and Security (FDS), which support the Gbagbo administration, face insurgents who back Ouattara, from Tuesday to try to take control of the neighborhood and drive out National Police.
The Attecoube neighborhood was also the scene of violent incidents and the police station was burned area, according to sources close to the Mayor's neighborhood. The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) reported today that 18 people were injured yesterday in Attecoube grenade explosions.
In Abobo, the main stronghold of Ouattara in Abidjan and has been the target of the bloodiest attacks of the SDS, militias and mercenaries of Gbagbo last three months, six people were killed yesterday in new shootings, while the Invisible Command maintains control of the neighborhood. A Muslim imam was killed today in Port Bouet, in the district of Yopougon, an area dominated by Gbagbo's supporters, witnesses said.
The generalization of the fighting has meant that schools do not open today, as companies and shops have closed and the vast majority of people do not leave their houses. After the speech last night offered Ouattara Gbagbo government to participate in a merger, if you hand the presidency, is expected intervention of his rival, who has already announced he will not abandon power.
For its part, according to a statement released today by the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an increase in the intensity of fighting in Abidjan and in western Ivory Coast, "along with the political impasse in which it is immersed the nation, is having serious repercussions on the population.
" The fighting in the west, between the SDS Gbagbo and the New Forces (Forces now Republican), former rebels were not disarmed after the civil war that control northern Iraq, who back Ouattara, "are causing renewed displacement and are creating a situation of great insecurity, "said MSF.
"In Liberia there are more than 82 000 refugees, of which 45 000 have arrived in the last three weeks", adds MSF, warning that failure drug delivery and "both victims of violence as the remaining patients found it increasingly difficult to access health care. "
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