The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reported on Tuesday, April 5 from "dozens of deaths" in the fighting with heavy weapons that have occurred in recent days in the Ivorian economic capital. "In Abidjan, we are obviously extremely concerned about the situation of civilians in a city as large, populated by millions of people," he said during a press spokesman of the High Commissioner, Rupert Colville.
A week after the start of the offensive by the Republican forces of Alassane Ouattara in Ivory Coast, the humanitarian situation in the country causes great concern. In Abidjan, food and drugs begin to fail. In many neighborhoods, residents remain holed up at home, afraid of looters and sporadic gunfire.
On Sunday, a cutoff of water to the entire city has complicated the situation. "Many families have had to look for points where water resupply. In some places, the only water available was orange, already tarnished," said Bernadette, a member of the association AID for the development of Côte d'Ivoire.
For NGOs on the ground, the humanitarian disaster has already begun. Marc Salvail, coordinator of emergency activities to Unicef, is locked in the premises of the organization in Abidjan. "The security situation prevents humanitarian act, it is total chaos. Today, we have stocks, but we can not respond to requests for assistance, especially in the northern districts of the city where fighting continues.
"Sunday, UNICEF had planned a trip to deliver food to nearly 400 people. The operation was to take place in zone four, relatively calm and under control of the French armed forces. "But just when we were heading to our store to take the supplies that we had to distribute an attack took place before our vehicle.
Four people were killed, we were forced to turn back. "The situation is especially worrying as the commander of the Republican Forces of Côte d'Ivoire, Issiaka" Wattao "Ouattara, has announced a resumption of fighting for a period of "forty-eight hours to properly clean up" the city. For Marc Salvail, the race against time began.
"It is imperative that we act quickly to avoid the worst. Chaos will anyway take several months to Abidjan today, thousands of people are armed, even if a clan wins the battle, the conflict will not be completed. "Yoroba Israel blogger, creator of the site information Avenue 225, lives in the Cocody district, north of Abidjan.
If he continues to go out to stock up on food in the few shops spared the looting, he acknowledged that "for many people, it becomes difficult to live because they are afraid to leave." On Twitter, the young man relays calls for help. Monday afternoon, it was a pregnant woman who sought a means of transportation to get to the hospital.
"Until the situation progresses, the networks are set up spontaneously to bring food and medicine to those who really need it." Charlotte Chabas 
A week after the start of the offensive by the Republican forces of Alassane Ouattara in Ivory Coast, the humanitarian situation in the country causes great concern. In Abidjan, food and drugs begin to fail. In many neighborhoods, residents remain holed up at home, afraid of looters and sporadic gunfire.
On Sunday, a cutoff of water to the entire city has complicated the situation. "Many families have had to look for points where water resupply. In some places, the only water available was orange, already tarnished," said Bernadette, a member of the association AID for the development of Côte d'Ivoire.
For NGOs on the ground, the humanitarian disaster has already begun. Marc Salvail, coordinator of emergency activities to Unicef, is locked in the premises of the organization in Abidjan. "The security situation prevents humanitarian act, it is total chaos. Today, we have stocks, but we can not respond to requests for assistance, especially in the northern districts of the city where fighting continues.
"Sunday, UNICEF had planned a trip to deliver food to nearly 400 people. The operation was to take place in zone four, relatively calm and under control of the French armed forces. "But just when we were heading to our store to take the supplies that we had to distribute an attack took place before our vehicle.
Four people were killed, we were forced to turn back. "The situation is especially worrying as the commander of the Republican Forces of Côte d'Ivoire, Issiaka" Wattao "Ouattara, has announced a resumption of fighting for a period of "forty-eight hours to properly clean up" the city. For Marc Salvail, the race against time began.
"It is imperative that we act quickly to avoid the worst. Chaos will anyway take several months to Abidjan today, thousands of people are armed, even if a clan wins the battle, the conflict will not be completed. "Yoroba Israel blogger, creator of the site information Avenue 225, lives in the Cocody district, north of Abidjan.
If he continues to go out to stock up on food in the few shops spared the looting, he acknowledged that "for many people, it becomes difficult to live because they are afraid to leave." On Twitter, the young man relays calls for help. Monday afternoon, it was a pregnant woman who sought a means of transportation to get to the hospital.
"Until the situation progresses, the networks are set up spontaneously to bring food and medicine to those who really need it." Charlotte Chabas
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