More than 22,000 people, according to the UN in Ivory Coast have fled into neighboring Liberia. Most refugees are women and therefore children from the west of the country in which raged for weeks, a bitter power struggle. The international community now sends relief supplies. Geneva / Nairobi - In view of the power struggle in the Ivory Coast, around 22,000 people fled into neighboring Liberia.Most refugees are women and children and came from the west of the West African country, said the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday in Geneva. If they were both to supporters of the international community recognized by the winner of the presidential election in early December, Alassane Ouattara, and for adherents of arbitrarily in office remaining head of state Laurent Gbagbo.
For fear of the supporters of each political opponent they had beaten by mostly at night by the bush in the neighboring country. In Liberia, according to UNHCR, the refugees have found temporary shelter in villages in the region of Nimba. There are reportedly missing, but for food, shelter and drinking water.
The UN has announced to increase its aid deliveries to refugees. In the city Sacleapea on the border with Ivory Coast, therefore, a first refugee camp set up. There are already trucks with relief supplies on the road. Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has described violence as "last resort" to Gbagbo to remove from office.
A military solution will of the West African community, ECOWAS and the African Union (AU) can not continue to be excluded, Odinga said on Wednesday after his return from the West African Ivory Coast. Odinga had joined as Special Envoy of the AU mediators of Ecowas. Gbagbo refuses to admit his defeat and relinquish power to Alassane Ouattara, who is recognized by the international community as the rightful election winner.
Gbagbo had "passed peacefully and without further delay," the Office said Odinga in the Kenyan radio station Capital FM. "We had far too long these cases, losing where incumbent elections, refusing to accept the verdict of the voters and negotiate ultimately a sharing of power," Odinga said, referring to the accompanied by bloody riots elections in Kenya and Zimbabwe.
"That should not be African Standard." A military solution to remove Gbagbo from office remain an option, "said Odinga. "Because of the loss of human life but this is the last resort, we want to avoid," he said. "We should continue the talks so quickly, to quickly come to a conclusion." Gbagbo had agreed on Tuesday ready for talks without preconditions, but it left open whether he is ready to resign.
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