Desplages French troops in Ivory Coast have taken control of the airport in Abidjan, the economic capital, this morning, as reported by the French Army General Staff. On Thursday, France added 300 troops to deploy in Abidjan MIIT has, in coordination with the United Nations mission, where they patrol their neighborhoods expatriates.
The military provided no details on when the takeover of the airport, or on the units of origin nor the place that started the new teachers that reinforce the current presence of 900 French soldiers in the country. A few hours later, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered reunification "without delay" of all French citizens living in Abidjan "to ensure their protection." "Do not expose to French aconvertirse Enrea or indirect victims of the confrontation between the two forces," said Defence Minister, Gerard Longuet, in connection with the fighting between loyalists to the outgoing president, Laurent Gbagbo, and the winner of the last election, Alassane Ouattara.
The next step is studying Paris evacuation of its nationals, some 12,000 nationwide. The United Nations mission in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) has begun to evacuate 200 employees after the frequent attacks on their headquarters by loyalists of the outgoing president, as confirmed by a spokesman for the international organization.
A helicopter has been moved from the center of Abidjan to the airport this morning has been taken by French troops. From there, another helicopter will move north of the country. The number of casualties while fighting was going on in Abidjan, the count of victims of the kind of civil war which has been plunged Ivory Coast this week increases: the Red Cross claimed that Duékoué, east of country, 800 people had died.
The figure was lowered after the UN, adding that they had recorded "at present" 330 corpses, "the majority by Ouattara troops," said Guillaume N'Gefa, head of Human Rights the UN mission in Ivory Coast. This morning the NGO Caritas has returned to boost the number and ensures that there are more than 1,000 people have died or are missing.
From the ranks of Ouattara and have been quick to deny that had anything to do with the slaughter. The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, has urged President-elect, Alassane Ouattara, to investigate the hundreds of deaths of those who blame their followers. Moon said he was "concerned and alarmed" by reports from the city of Duekoue, where according to BBC reporter Andrew Harding, UN workers have found hundreds of bodies.
Ouattara on his part said that his followers were not involved. The fighting escalated situation in the streets of Abidjan is also getting worse and is growing day by day the number of foreigners who have taken refuge in the military base at Port-Bouet, near the international airport. Yesterday there were more than 1,400, mostly French, community with 12,000 people in Ivory Coast.
Leave their homes for fear of looting, bands of thieves and the shooting. A dozen French armored belonging to the UN force moved in Abidjan, constantly patrolling the neighborhoods inhabited by foreigners to protect and, where appropriate, lead them to the military base. Four peacekeepers were seriously wounded by Gbagbo's troops.
"I saw the tanks go down my street and I did not think" a resident in Abidjan told French national television to i-Télé. "I told them to wait to fetch my family. We got in the car and followed them to the camp." The newspaper Le Monde yesterday gathered testimony from foreign nationals held in warehouses or in the offices of their factories or shops, hidden in fear of being discovered by looters.
Cancel Jean-Luc, a French industrialist, recounted by hand to the newspaper Le Figaro that takes two days hiding in an interior room of the house of some friends of Ivory Coast. "I hide from student supporters of Gbagbo, who armed with Kalashnikov rifles, firing on all whites. After narrowly escaped.
I stood in the street and said they would burn me alive, calling me 'Sarkozy'. People I just knew I was saved when students had taken a can of gasoline. " The offensive by troops loyal to Ouattara began Monday in northern Iraq and in five days have done with all the territory except for a handful of districts of Abidjan.
But these neighborhoods, troops last remnants of the outgoing president, Laurent Gbagbo, not yield. The fighting in these areas, which began on Thursday, are becoming tougher. Ouattara military chiefs undoubtedly underestimate the resilience of the last loyal to Gbagbo. And the nearly 3,000 members of the Republican Guard have been strong and refuse to surrender.
In the last hours loud explosions have occurred in several strategic locations in the city, including the presidential palace. All reports said that Gbagbo is cornered, or in the presidential palace or in his private residence, both located in central Abidjan, in the suburb of Cocody. But if Friday was thought that the end was near, in fact there were rumors that Gbagbo had fled to Abidjan, "now few dared to predict the end of the battle.
Secretary of State of the United States has stressed this morning that "Gbagbo must be removed immediately." 
The military provided no details on when the takeover of the airport, or on the units of origin nor the place that started the new teachers that reinforce the current presence of 900 French soldiers in the country. A few hours later, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered reunification "without delay" of all French citizens living in Abidjan "to ensure their protection." "Do not expose to French aconvertirse Enrea or indirect victims of the confrontation between the two forces," said Defence Minister, Gerard Longuet, in connection with the fighting between loyalists to the outgoing president, Laurent Gbagbo, and the winner of the last election, Alassane Ouattara.
The next step is studying Paris evacuation of its nationals, some 12,000 nationwide. The United Nations mission in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) has begun to evacuate 200 employees after the frequent attacks on their headquarters by loyalists of the outgoing president, as confirmed by a spokesman for the international organization.
A helicopter has been moved from the center of Abidjan to the airport this morning has been taken by French troops. From there, another helicopter will move north of the country. The number of casualties while fighting was going on in Abidjan, the count of victims of the kind of civil war which has been plunged Ivory Coast this week increases: the Red Cross claimed that Duékoué, east of country, 800 people had died.
The figure was lowered after the UN, adding that they had recorded "at present" 330 corpses, "the majority by Ouattara troops," said Guillaume N'Gefa, head of Human Rights the UN mission in Ivory Coast. This morning the NGO Caritas has returned to boost the number and ensures that there are more than 1,000 people have died or are missing.
From the ranks of Ouattara and have been quick to deny that had anything to do with the slaughter. The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, has urged President-elect, Alassane Ouattara, to investigate the hundreds of deaths of those who blame their followers. Moon said he was "concerned and alarmed" by reports from the city of Duekoue, where according to BBC reporter Andrew Harding, UN workers have found hundreds of bodies.
Ouattara on his part said that his followers were not involved. The fighting escalated situation in the streets of Abidjan is also getting worse and is growing day by day the number of foreigners who have taken refuge in the military base at Port-Bouet, near the international airport. Yesterday there were more than 1,400, mostly French, community with 12,000 people in Ivory Coast.
Leave their homes for fear of looting, bands of thieves and the shooting. A dozen French armored belonging to the UN force moved in Abidjan, constantly patrolling the neighborhoods inhabited by foreigners to protect and, where appropriate, lead them to the military base. Four peacekeepers were seriously wounded by Gbagbo's troops.
"I saw the tanks go down my street and I did not think" a resident in Abidjan told French national television to i-Télé. "I told them to wait to fetch my family. We got in the car and followed them to the camp." The newspaper Le Monde yesterday gathered testimony from foreign nationals held in warehouses or in the offices of their factories or shops, hidden in fear of being discovered by looters.
Cancel Jean-Luc, a French industrialist, recounted by hand to the newspaper Le Figaro that takes two days hiding in an interior room of the house of some friends of Ivory Coast. "I hide from student supporters of Gbagbo, who armed with Kalashnikov rifles, firing on all whites. After narrowly escaped.
I stood in the street and said they would burn me alive, calling me 'Sarkozy'. People I just knew I was saved when students had taken a can of gasoline. " The offensive by troops loyal to Ouattara began Monday in northern Iraq and in five days have done with all the territory except for a handful of districts of Abidjan.
But these neighborhoods, troops last remnants of the outgoing president, Laurent Gbagbo, not yield. The fighting in these areas, which began on Thursday, are becoming tougher. Ouattara military chiefs undoubtedly underestimate the resilience of the last loyal to Gbagbo. And the nearly 3,000 members of the Republican Guard have been strong and refuse to surrender.
In the last hours loud explosions have occurred in several strategic locations in the city, including the presidential palace. All reports said that Gbagbo is cornered, or in the presidential palace or in his private residence, both located in central Abidjan, in the suburb of Cocody. But if Friday was thought that the end was near, in fact there were rumors that Gbagbo had fled to Abidjan, "now few dared to predict the end of the battle.
Secretary of State of the United States has stressed this morning that "Gbagbo must be removed immediately."
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