The Ivory Coast is heading towards a period of turbulence and is already in place the beginnings of civil war that does not bode good. Of course, here we did not know anything and just talking about countries that have to deal more directly with our reality, as the African nations of the Maghreb. I in Ivory Coast I lived there seven years, from 1994 to 2000, when he was the third African nation's richest, the first international export of cocoa and coffee in the second 'strong' world. There I had decided to live for those flows of the strange fate that makes you choose a place rather than another, I opened my import-export company, two restaurants, continuing to do freelance journalist, and I are also married by three children. In 2000, however, at the beginning of the first coup, I decided to return to Italy because I could see more prospects for me and my family. Today the situation has deteriorated and is moving towards civil war, although there are 6,000 UN peacekeepers to separate the contenders, which is not difficult to understand what we are doing. We start, perhaps, to a fate such as Liberia or Sierra Leone a few years ago, if you do not act now to stop signs of barbarism. There is an ethnic minority, the Bete, who with President Gbagbo is not elected, he wants to stay in power by force, against President Vincent Ouattara, which is more the people of Northern Ireland, one of the mostly Muslim Djoula, and that is been recognized worldwide as the real winner of the last elections. Who but the greatest number of people and has always held power since independence France, Houphouet Boigny in 1960, is the Akan group, which currently can not go back to the limelight, and leave it for fear of the bullies of the day. Gbagbo's men, who say they left, organized death squads have killed women and children in peaceful demonstrations and go from house to house to kill the opponents, a dimension inimaginabile only a few years ago. From information we have from my wife's relatives, who fled in a small village in the country of origin (a little 'how our displaced than once in the last world wars, ranging from cities in the countryside where the peasants they always had something to eat in the farmyard), the situation is very serious. My wife and I are trying to organize something to help those we can in the country, in some way inform international opinion and invent something out of this status quo. For now, who wants to participate can make donations to the account 40843039, made payable to Anthony Brindisi, causal 'For peace in Ivory Coast', thus creating a true European, and come forward for any other initiative or idea. On March 10, 2011 I wanted to send money first but I was not possible: the only way to send even in war zones, the famous 'Western Union', in Ivory Coast has stopped for now to work because of the increasing general insecurity. A bad sign. If I can not to send anything, maybe I'll go directly to one of these days, going to Ghana. As of now I thank those who will come forward, if only to raise awareness about the situation in all possible locations. My e-mail address is ilgorgon@libero.it and my mobile phone 3479372251. Work in Côte d'Ivoire in Abidjan and my experience and around you can find them on my blog http://www.ilgorgon.blogspot.com/ .
"The worried look around the world has focused for weeks on events in North Africa. This, unfortunately, is passing almost unnoticed by the tragedy that we are living in the western part of the continent in the Ivory Coast, where even Once the people are paying with their blood frenzied struggle for power of two politicians, the outgoing president, Laurent Gbagbo, who does not want to go, despite his challenger, Alassane Dramane Ouattara, has won - at least on paper - the last elections. All ' a UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees), then that is not counting the 370 thousand displaced persons in Abidjan and the west of the country, in addition to the 76,956 refugees already in Liberia. In all, over 500 thousand people forced to flee from their country to escape the violence unleashed by the two factions. Poor response to the appeal. On January 14, the UN agency has launched the international community an appeal for 46 million dollars needed to cope with the influx of refugees in Liberia. So far they have come to only 5 million. Another 13 million have been pledged by donors, but only at the time promised. The situation is, however, prompting the UNHCR to launch a new appeal for the next week, hoping that this time the response of governments and international donors to be more generous. The capital less secure. Continuanointanto to deteriorate the security situation in Abidjan. Of 30 injuries and 3 deaths is the death toll from clashes in the district of Abobo marzonel 6 and the next day in the district of Cocody. Checkpoints manned by armed men continue to make dangerous journeys around the main city the country, damaging to the entire population. Where possible, UNHCR continues to provide assistance, often through local NGOs. Around the city were so far identified 20 places where large amounts of displaced persons are concentrated. In some of these places, the number and needs of the population are still under investigation, but it is certain that there is an urgent need for food and medicines. Violence is rampant throughout the country. Flared in the western regions and appears to extend from central and south-east. We have testimonies from people on the run, attempts to prevent these movements and physical abuse, rapes. As UNHCR has told the operators a girl of 21 years, succeeded in flee to Liberia with his son two years, after being beaten by the rebels for having resisted an attempted rape. And more and more refugees arrived in Liberia who report being involved in gun battles during the flight. Some of them were forced to find shelter and spent the night in the bush. With these new flows, UNHCR plans to update its operations in Liberia and adjusting the budget to prepare to assist up to 150 thousand refugees. The causes Deila crisis. ll outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo on March 7 last year, issued a decree for the nationalization of the entire supply chain of cocoa (of which Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer). The decision in an attempt to answer a quella che Gbagbo definisce "l'asfissia finanziaria", imposta dal suo rivale insediatosi al governo del Paese. Manovre, queste di Ouattara, con le quali il nuovo presidente, sostenuto da gran parte della comunità internazionale, tenta di costringere Gbagbo a lasciare il potere. Finora - appoggiato dall'Onu, l'Unione Africana, l'Unione Europea e gli Stati Uniti - Ouattara è riuscito a mettere in difficoltà Gbagbo imponendo, fino al prossimo 15 marzo, il divieto di esportare caffè e cacao, da cui lo Stato ivoriano ricava gran parte delle entrate in valute estere.La reazione delle cooperative del cacao. Il divieto è stato complessivamente rispettato dagli esportatori, la maggior parte dei quali sono società multinazionali (Cargill, CEMO, Saco). But it has provoked very vigorous in particular by co-production of cocoa, which have an annual output of around 1.3 million tonnes. To stem the political and economic effects of the ban, the Gbagbo administration has decided to give the State the exclusive on purchases - at about 700 000 farmers, most of them in the south of the country - and export cocoa and coffee, confiscating stocks (between 250 and 500 000 tonnes), blocked in the ports of Abidjan and San Pedro. The banks shut their doors. Some banks have closed their doors for security reasons ", an operation shared by many other financial institutions. The result is that the entire financial system Ivorian, is increasingly isolated from the international context, making it even more difficult the lives of many families. They are citizens who, among other things, no longer able to receive aid from abroad through the money transfer service. "(La Repubblica, 03/11/2011)
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