Friday, January 14, 2011

Unrest In The Ivory Coast -- News Updates January 14, 2011

Toll In I.Coast Rises To 247 Dead, 49 Missing -U.N. -- Reuters

* Death toll rises to 247 from 210 in week, U.N. says
* Forty nine missing; no access to three alleged mass graves

GENEVA, Jan 14 (Reuters) - At least 247 people have been killed in violence in Ivory Coast since its disputed presidential election in late November, the United Nations human rights office said on Friday.

The death toll is up from 210 a week ago, U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville told a media briefing in Geneva.

The latest fatalities include 4 civilians and 7 police killed in clashes in the Abidjan suburb of Abobo, he said.

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More News On The Unrest In The Ivory Coast

Third mass grave found in Côte d'Ivoire, says UN -- Mail & Guardian
UN alarmed by mass graves in Ivory Coast -- Times Live
Third mass grave found in Ivory Coast, says UN -- The Guardian
Third I.Coast mass grave reported: UN rights boss -- Reuters
UN: 247 killed in Côte d'Ivoire's political stalemate -- Relief Web

African Union mediator in Ivory Coast Sunday -- Capital News
Kenyan PM Says Power-Sharing May Not Be Solution To Ivory Coast Crisis -- Bernama
Ivory Coast Peacekeepers Come Under Increasing Attack as Tensions Escalate -- Bloomberg
Ivory Coast: Mobs, security forces attack UN cars -- AP
Students burn UN vehicles as Ivorian tensions escalate -- Montreal Gazette/Reuters
UN 'under attack' in Cote d'Ivoire -- Al Jazeera
U.N. leader concerned about attacks on agency vehicles in Ivory Coast -- CNN
US condemns Gbagbo regime's violence on UN troops -- AFP

Ivorian humanitarian crisis emerging? -- UPI
The financial war in Ivory Coast: Five key questions answered -- Christian Science Monitor
Ivory Coast standoff: Hit Gbagbo where it hurts -- take away the power of the purse -- Melissa Labonte, Christian Science Monitor
We can't engineer the result we want in Ivory Coast -- The Guardian

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