Côte d'Ivoire is moving towards a period of turbulence and is already in place the beginnings of civil war that does not bode good. Naturally here we did not know anything and just talking about countries that have more to do 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 perspective 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 highest number of inhabitants ed ha detenuto sempre il potere dopo l'indipendenza dalla Francia, nel 1960 con Houphouet Boigny, è il gruppo Akan, che attualmente non riesce di nuovo a tornare alla ribalta, e lascia fare per paura dei prepotenti di turno. Gli uomini di Gbagbo, che si dicono di sinistra, organizzati in squadroni della morte, hanno già ucciso donne e bambini in pacifiche manifestazioni e vanno di casa in casa ad uccidere gli oppositori, una dimensione inimaginabile solo qualche anno fa. Dalle notizie che abbiamo dai parenti di mia moglie, che sono fuggiti in un piccolo villaggio di origine all'interno del Paese (un po' come i nostri sfollati di una volta, nelle ultime guerre mondiali, che andavano dalle città nelle campagne dove i contadini avevano sempre qualcosa 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 insecurity generale. Un brutto segno. Se non riuscirò ad inviare niente, forse andrò direttamente io uno di questi giorni, passando per il Ghana. Sin d'adesso ringrazio chi si farà avanti, anche solo per sensibilizzare sulla situazione in tutte le sedi possibili. La mia e-mail è ilgorgon@libero.it e il mio cellulare 3479372251. Cenni della Costa d'Avorio e della mia esperienza ad Abidjan e dintorni li potete trovare sul mio blog http://www.ilgorgon.blogspot.com/ .
"Lo sguardo preoccupato di tutto il mondo è concentrato da settimane sugli eventi in Nord Africa. Questo purtroppo sta facendo passare quasi inosservata la tragedia che si sta vivendo nella parte più occidentale del continente, in Costa d'Avorio, dove ancora una volta la popolazione sta pagando con il sangue la lotta forsennata per il potere di due uomini politici, il presidente uscente, Laurent Gbagbo, che non se ne vuole andare, nonostante il suo sfidante, Alassane Dramane Ouattara, abbia vinto - almeno sulla carta - le ultime elezioni. All' UNHCR 1 (l'Alto Commissariato delle Nazioni Unite per i Rifugiati) non resta dunque che contare i 370mila sfollati, ad Abidjan e nell'ovest del paese, oltre che i 76.956 rifugiati già in Liberia. In tutto, oltre 500mila persone costrette a scappare dal loro paese, per sfuggire alle violenze scatenate dalle due fazioni. Poor response to the appeal. On January 14, the UN agency has launched an appeal to the international community for $ 46 million 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.
meanwhile continue 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 country's main city, damage 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, managed to flee into 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 Cocoa supply chain (including Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer). The decision in an attempt to answer that Gbagbo calls "the financial asphyxiation," set by his rival took office in the government of the country. Maneuvers, this one Ouattara, with which the new president, supported by much of the international community, it attempts to force Gbagbo to leave power. So far - backed by the UN, the African Union, the European Union and the United States - Ouattara was able to put in difficulty by imposing Gbagbo, until 15 March, the ban on exports of coffee and cacao, from which the State of Côte d'Ivoire derives a large part of revenue in currencies estere.La reaction cooperative of cocoa. The prohibition was generally respected by the exporters, most of which are multinational corporations (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)
meanwhile continue 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 country's main city, damage 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, managed to flee into 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 Cocoa supply chain (including Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer). The decision in an attempt to answer that Gbagbo calls "the financial asphyxiation," set by his rival took office in the government of the country. Maneuvers, this one Ouattara, with which the new president, supported by much of the international community, it attempts to force Gbagbo to leave power. So far - backed by the UN, the African Union, the European Union and the United States - Ouattara was able to put in difficulty by imposing Gbagbo, until 15 March, the ban on exports of coffee and cacao, from which the State of Côte d'Ivoire derives a large part of revenue in currencies estere.La reaction cooperative of cocoa. The prohibition was generally respected by the exporters, most of which are multinational corporations (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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