MSF Increases Treatment Capacity in Taï and Duékoué Following new attacks earlier last week near Taï, at the Liberian border, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has strengthened its treatment capacity in Taï and Duékoué hospitals in preparation for a possible influx of wounded patients. Health-care...
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Up to sixteen civilians have been killed during an attack on Zriglo, a village in Southwest Ivory Coast just south of the town of Taï, late last week. Up to 50 houses have been burned and most of the population fled into the forests. The attack on Zriglo is part of the ongoing violence in Southwest...
“He took a machete and struck me on the throat…” “Many of the houses in my village were burned…” “There are corpses and bones of people there at the entrance to the forest where people were killed…” “ He took a machete and struck me on the throat…” Man, 26, Western Ivory Coast. (April 2011) I’m not...
“They hit me on the back of my head with a machete, and cut my arm…” “Many people were dead and their bodies burned…” “They laid me down on it, doused me with gasoline and set me on fire…” “They hit me on the back of my head with a machete, and cut my arm…” Boy, 17, village in western Ivory Coast...
Displaced people in border areas need better assistance The situation in Ivory Coast remains volatile in the west, following the post-election conflict that wracked the country for several months, intensifying existing inter-communal tensions and land rivalries. Weeks after the violence began to...
“They killed my mother and father and burned their bodies right in front of my wife…” “People were burned alive in their houses…” “Everything I had was burned, what should I do over there?” “Armed men came and started shooting at all of us…” “They killed my mother and father and burned their bodies...
The situation in Abidjan had been very tense until April 13, two days after the Gbagbo regime fell. Since that time, the improvement has been palpable. Some fighting broke out on May 3 and 4, in the Yopougon district, the stronghold of forces loyal to outgoing President Gbagbo, the main...
While the post-election violence that wracked communities in Ivory Coast ended almost a month ago in most of the country, emergency medical needs remain at critical levels. In Abidjan, health centres and hospitals are overwhelmed with patients, including the newly wounded, and medical and drug...
