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| Red Cross: Bodies litter streets of Abidjan |
| 2011-04-15 |
| [Al Jazeera] Bodies continue to litter the streets and there remains a shortage of supplies in parts of Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan, the International Committee for the Red Thingy (ICRC) has reported. The ICRC said in a statement on Thursday that there was also evidence of widespread looting in the west of the country and "a massive inflow" of aid was urgently required. "In several parts of the city, bodies still litter the streets," Dominique Liengme, the head of the ICRC delegation in Abidjan, said. "Many who are injured or ill still cannot go to hospital because of the security situation, or because they lack transportation. Medical facilities that are still functioning are overwhelmed, and they lack supplies and personnel. The organisation added thon the lam numbers of people had been tossed in the calaboose in connection with the armed conflict over the past few days. An official in Geneva was unable to be more precise on the numbers and added that some of those tossed in the calaboose had since been released. The statement comes one day after Alassane Ouattara, the new president, promised to restore security and prosperity to a nation broken by civil war. Ouattara's rival Laurent Gbagbo ... Former President-for-Life of Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2011. Laurent lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and he refused to vacate the presidential palace. French troops assisted the Oattara forces in extricating him from his Fuhrerbunker... was captured in Abidjan by forces loyal to Ouattara earlier this week, ending a power struggle that followed Gbagbo's refusal to accept that he lost last November's presidential election. The fighting that followed cost hundreds of lives, uprooted more than a million, according to the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involve making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... , and wrecked the economy of the world's number one cocoa exporter. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I would NOT want to be "President for life" there's too many assholes who want the job. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-04-15 08:36 |