Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Life goes in Abidjan, the press dream of revival

A week after the fall of Laurent Gbagbo, life began to return to Abidjan timidly. The day of Monday, April 18 was crucial for the new power which had called on officials to take "essential" work that day. Back to school is officially scheduled April 26. Officials called back to work at 7 am 30, have joined their offices, and several newspapers have reappeared on the newsstands.

Taxis and some buses crowded public also began to circulate in the Plateau district, the center of the economic capital where the government and the presidential palace. The area was the scene of fighting for ten days until the arrest, April 11, Gbagbo. The Minister of Public Service, Gnamien Konan, arrived about 9 am to 30 the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, still closed, the time to check security.

"It's been four months since the state machine is stopped. I note that here, at the premises of the public, people are in place," said the minister, under the portrait of Laurent Gbagbo , still hanging on the wall. But for others, the work was not yet possible. An official of the National Assembly and said he saw "a decaying corpse" before entering the building.

"And the thieves stole all the computers, all excavated overthrown. I do not know if it will work before two to three months, "he said. Pockets of insecurity remained in Abidjan, and we continued to hear gunshots isolated Monday morning. In the port of Abidjan, a mainstay of the economy, the ships arrived in dribs and drabs since late last week, two tankers and an LNG tanker docked.

A container was expected Wednesday, which should allow the resumption of exports of cocoa, which Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer. On the positive side, the press has reappeared after nearly three weeks of disruption. But the websites of most securities have not been updated for weeks, offering an anachronistic replay of nearly four months of post-election crisis.

On the website of Our Way, the newspaper of the party of former president, you can still read a warning to the victory of Laurent Gbagbo with 51.45% of votes cast. The state daily Fraternité-Matin (website down for maintenance), pro-Gbagbo during the crisis, headlined its editorial "Reconciliation, forgiveness, peace." The newspaper, a victim of looting after the fall of Mr.

Gbagbo, is says "ready to take an active part in this process of reconciliation for the reconstruction and development in peace." Newspapers close to the new dream, too, of rebirth. "Côte d'Ivoire back to life", as in its printed North-South (site not updated). For The Patriot, "Ivory Coast is reborn with ADO" (nickname of President Ouattara).

That "issue" for Mandate. "Ivory Coast will live, live, live!" Exclaimed L'Intelligent d'Abidjan with Ivorian inset presidents since the "Father of the Nation", Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Mr. Ouattara up . In its editorial, the newspaper, which had supported the new president during the crisis, think "this huge mess we could have and should have avoided." "What a mess!" Exclaims as Inter (an independent) after nearly five months of violence marked by nine hundred dead.

On the homepage of its website, which is current, Inter quotes highlight a sentence deFélix Houphouet-Boigny, the father of Ivorian independence: "Dialogue is the weapon of the strong, not weak, c 'is the weapon of those who put their problems before the general problems, before questions of self-esteem.

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