The Yopougon in the west of Abidjan, the last stronghold of militiamen loyal to ousted President Laurent Gbagbo, is now entirely under the control of the forces of the new head of state, Alassane Ouattara, announced Wednesday, May 4 at evening the Ivorian authorities. "This is the only sector that remains (to win), and the whole area is now permanently occupied by us," said the Ivorian television TCI commander Cherif Ousmane, operations officer in the military republican Coast ivory.
Militiamen loyal to Laurent Gbagbo made it their stronghold and fought again in the morning in the area of the naval base in southeastern district, bordering the lagoon. The Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Guillaume Soro, visited the premises in the afternoon. "I saw the streets littered with corpses.
Militiamen At HQ, we saw a makeshift cemetery. I guess all the abuses that have occurred. I'm still in shock from all the dead, all dead," he said on the TCI. Journalists of accompanying a team from the Ivorian Red Cross noted Wednesday that dozens of bodies, riddled with bullets and burned and reduced to a skeleton, littered streets of the neighborhood.
Laurent Gbagbo, and his wife Simone, scheduled to appear Friday before the Ivorian justice as part of a preliminary hearing on charges of extortion and bribery. 
Militiamen loyal to Laurent Gbagbo made it their stronghold and fought again in the morning in the area of the naval base in southeastern district, bordering the lagoon. The Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Guillaume Soro, visited the premises in the afternoon. "I saw the streets littered with corpses.
Militiamen At HQ, we saw a makeshift cemetery. I guess all the abuses that have occurred. I'm still in shock from all the dead, all dead," he said on the TCI. Journalists of accompanying a team from the Ivorian Red Cross noted Wednesday that dozens of bodies, riddled with bullets and burned and reduced to a skeleton, littered streets of the neighborhood.
Laurent Gbagbo, and his wife Simone, scheduled to appear Friday before the Ivorian justice as part of a preliminary hearing on charges of extortion and bribery.
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