The humanitarian situation in Ivory Coast deepens after the dialogue initiated by France yesterday for the resignation of President Laurent Gbagbo has not come to any terms. The constant siege by supporters of President-elect, Alassane Ouattara, to the residence where the president has retreated late this afternoon, while civilians are afraid to leave the streets, taken by gunmen from both sides and necessary, increasingly important for water, food and medicines.
"Our staff are blocked because we dare not go out and make a dent fatigue and, after six days of taking casualties and without having received the baton from another computer over the telephone account Delphire Chedorge, team coordinator of Doctors Without Borders moved to hospital in the neighborhood of Abobo Sud "We need to save the medicines we have because without arriving from abroad, there will be too soon." After several days of high intensity street fighting and bombing, the situation seems calmarseen that area of Abidjan: "The fight is calm here near the hospital and, after several days, only sporadic shots heard," said Chedorge that today confirmed that they had received only 20 wounded, "all of them on the side of Ouattara forces", which is the major force in the district where the hospital is located, "Are they who we bring them, because they are the only who dare to travel by car through the streets of Abidjan.
" Without water and electricity "Diseases do not take to see. People are drinking contaminated water from wells that are in the middle of the city." The lack of a potable supply in the Kumasi district, more than 600,000 inhabitants, 5 miles from the center of Abidjan, is one of the main concerns that live Cesar Fernandez, provincial secretary of the Salesian mission in Ivory Coast: "There trash everywhere and for 48 hours there is no water supply.'s going to be real mystery to find, because the wells will also be exhausted, "said Fernandez through your parish it manages.
Fernandez works with two other Spanish, a citizen of Ivory Coast and another of Togo, in the Salesian mission which aims since last September in Abidjan: "We take care of giving asylum to 60 street children and education is also a second home we have, "in a neighborhood known as Kumasi Ramblas, which means filling, because most houses are built on marshland.
César Fernández noted that the neighborhood where they are installed is taken by militia supporters of Alassane Ouattara elected president and that the situation "is still complicated," and that "even many shots are heard outside." "The food become scarce and people are desperate. They are starting to raid the stores of the Lebanese and Mauritanians, who are small traders in the area." Fernandez noted that this morning a group of citizens have assaulted a sugar factory near the neighborhood where is situated the two shelters managed by this group of Salesians.
Lack of food also for a teacher with extensive experience in black Africa, based in Abidjan and prefers not to give his name to "prudence", the lack of electricity, water and food is still the main problem: "Since the bombing began UN and France, we are looking for water and food and are without light.
" The Spanish aid worker tells how the inhabitants of the neighborhood and many of the parents of more than 1500 students, aged between 10 and 18 years you have in your school, do not know what to do and where to go for food: "The situation is very unfair to these people who are peaceful and friendly.
Has anyone actually asked in Europe if France has informed objectively about this crisis and if you're doing the right thing? ". The teacher "knows no time," which has not walked the streets, "given the attitude of France and the EU against the post-election conflict," the simple reason of being "white" can become reason to be objective in a city completely taken over by armies of supporters and Ouattara and Gbagbo.
"We are a group we have over 120 families in our care and we have more than 2 months without a salary and sharing food and medicine that we had, all the reservations we had," says Spanish teacher by telephone, ensuring knows that nurses are "powerless" in the absence of medical equipment available in hospitals in Abidjan, since France imposed the embargo on it.
The Spanish teacher ensures that communications with other parts of the city, and beyond, are still virtually impossible, "I have recharged my phone with the battery in my car, but here people can not communicate because there is no electricity" . One of the moments where panic passed over him and his staff was in the bombing last Monday, when the missiles hit the military base next to the school building and congregation to which he belongs, "We hid under the stairs but all The building shook as it tumbled a real rain of fire.
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"Our staff are blocked because we dare not go out and make a dent fatigue and, after six days of taking casualties and without having received the baton from another computer over the telephone account Delphire Chedorge, team coordinator of Doctors Without Borders moved to hospital in the neighborhood of Abobo Sud "We need to save the medicines we have because without arriving from abroad, there will be too soon." After several days of high intensity street fighting and bombing, the situation seems calmarseen that area of Abidjan: "The fight is calm here near the hospital and, after several days, only sporadic shots heard," said Chedorge that today confirmed that they had received only 20 wounded, "all of them on the side of Ouattara forces", which is the major force in the district where the hospital is located, "Are they who we bring them, because they are the only who dare to travel by car through the streets of Abidjan.
" Without water and electricity "Diseases do not take to see. People are drinking contaminated water from wells that are in the middle of the city." The lack of a potable supply in the Kumasi district, more than 600,000 inhabitants, 5 miles from the center of Abidjan, is one of the main concerns that live Cesar Fernandez, provincial secretary of the Salesian mission in Ivory Coast: "There trash everywhere and for 48 hours there is no water supply.'s going to be real mystery to find, because the wells will also be exhausted, "said Fernandez through your parish it manages.
Fernandez works with two other Spanish, a citizen of Ivory Coast and another of Togo, in the Salesian mission which aims since last September in Abidjan: "We take care of giving asylum to 60 street children and education is also a second home we have, "in a neighborhood known as Kumasi Ramblas, which means filling, because most houses are built on marshland.
César Fernández noted that the neighborhood where they are installed is taken by militia supporters of Alassane Ouattara elected president and that the situation "is still complicated," and that "even many shots are heard outside." "The food become scarce and people are desperate. They are starting to raid the stores of the Lebanese and Mauritanians, who are small traders in the area." Fernandez noted that this morning a group of citizens have assaulted a sugar factory near the neighborhood where is situated the two shelters managed by this group of Salesians.
Lack of food also for a teacher with extensive experience in black Africa, based in Abidjan and prefers not to give his name to "prudence", the lack of electricity, water and food is still the main problem: "Since the bombing began UN and France, we are looking for water and food and are without light.
" The Spanish aid worker tells how the inhabitants of the neighborhood and many of the parents of more than 1500 students, aged between 10 and 18 years you have in your school, do not know what to do and where to go for food: "The situation is very unfair to these people who are peaceful and friendly.
Has anyone actually asked in Europe if France has informed objectively about this crisis and if you're doing the right thing? ". The teacher "knows no time," which has not walked the streets, "given the attitude of France and the EU against the post-election conflict," the simple reason of being "white" can become reason to be objective in a city completely taken over by armies of supporters and Ouattara and Gbagbo.
"We are a group we have over 120 families in our care and we have more than 2 months without a salary and sharing food and medicine that we had, all the reservations we had," says Spanish teacher by telephone, ensuring knows that nurses are "powerless" in the absence of medical equipment available in hospitals in Abidjan, since France imposed the embargo on it.
The Spanish teacher ensures that communications with other parts of the city, and beyond, are still virtually impossible, "I have recharged my phone with the battery in my car, but here people can not communicate because there is no electricity" . One of the moments where panic passed over him and his staff was in the bombing last Monday, when the missiles hit the military base next to the school building and congregation to which he belongs, "We hid under the stairs but all The building shook as it tumbled a real rain of fire.
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