Cote d’Ivoire

The International Rescue Committee seeks a Health Coordinator for its Cote d’Ivoire program, based 50% in Tabou and 50% in Man. The Health Coordinator will be initially based in Tabou and will be responsible to conduct the fazing out strategy put in place by his/her predecessor for Tabou.

A mini-summit of Cote d'Ivoire's main political leaders ended in disagreement after participants failed to reach consensus on preparations for delayed elections aimed at restoring peace in the divided country. "The Yamoussoukro summit has failed," said spokesman for the New Forces rebels, Sidiki Konate, late on Tuesday.

Hundreds of people have been admitted to hospital after breathing toxic fumes from poisonous waste dumped in residential areas of Cote d'Ivoire's main city, Abidjan. On Tuesday, hundreds of the city's residents threw up barricades in protest, prompting the government to appeal on national television for roads to be cleared so that medical personnel could get through.

Ivorian civil society on Monday (September 3) proposed a 24-month transition in Cote d’Ivoire within the backdrop of the UN security council’s session on the Ivorian crisis slated at its New York headquarters, the Ivorian civil society Convention (CSCI) announced in a statement copied Monday to APA.

The main parties in Cote d'Ivoire’s conflict were set to gather on Tuesday (September 5) for a fresh round of talks on the faltering peace process ahead of a key United Nations meeting in New York later this month. President Laurent Gbagbo is to meet with rebel New Forces leader Guillaume Soro and the two main opposition leaders, Alassane Ouattara and Henri Konan Bedie.

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