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GENEVA / CÔTE D’IVOIRE UPDATE
STORY: GENEVA / CÔTE D’IVOIRE UPDATE
TRT: 2.52
SOURCE: UNTV / ONUCI
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ FRENCH/ NATS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
DATELINE: 6 MAY 2011, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations
6 MAY 2011, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“The human rights division of UN mission in Cote d'Ivoire has been receiving reports that at least 40 people are believed to have been killed during the violence in Yopougon which was mostly on Wednesday I believe. And today the human rights special investigation team is due to visit the site of an alleged mass grave in this particular suburb of Abidjan."
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“Our staff in Cote d’Ivoire are investigating reports of human rights violations in the Yopougon district of Abidjan, committed allegedly by both the FRCI and the pro Gbagbo militiamen who’ve been holding out in that district and they’re particularly looking at an attack against a Baptist church allegedly by FRCI forces earlier in the week.”
6. Med shot, row of journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Elizabeth Byrs, Spokesperson, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
“The situation in Côte d’Ivoire should not be forgotten, because it’s not getting the headlines. People continue to need assistance. We have only 22 percent of the money necessary for the UN to continue their work."
8. Med shot, journalists
9. Med shot, 3 journalists
ONUCI - 28 APRIL 2011, BOUAKÉ, CÔTE D'IVOIRE
10. Med shot, students arriving at school
11. Wide shot, classroom
12. Close up, Principal Abdoulaye at work
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Diako Abdoulaye, Principal of the Bouake’s Lycée Classique 1:
“Some have not yet been able to join us because certainly they are stuck in the cities where they fled. They are about 13 missing on a total of 91; regarding educators, there are 2 missing on 14, which equates to 85% of any actual presence.”
14. Med shot, teacher and students in class
15. Med shot, female students in class
16. Close up, student writing on workbook
17. Close up, student
18. Wide shot, students exiting the school building
ONUCI - 28 APRIL 2011, ABIDJAN, CÔTE D'IVOIRE
19. Med shot, customers in front of the gate (portal) of the bank
20. Wide shot, customer in front of BHCI bank
21. Wide shot, customer in front of the Banque Internationale pour l'Afrique Occidentale Cote d'Ivoire (BIAO-CI)
22. Pan right, BIAO-CI to La Société Générale de Banques en Côte d’Ivoire (SGBCI)
United Nations (UN) Human Rights Spokesman Rupert Colville told the press today (6 May) in Geneva that a team was investigating reports of a mass grave in the Yopougon district of Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital, Abidjan, where gunmen loyal to former President Laurent Gbagbo have made a last stand after he was arrested in mid-April.
The team is investigating the reported killing earlier this week of at least 40 people in Yopougon and is due to visit an alleged mass grave there today, according to the spokesperson.
Colville said that they are investigating reports of human rights violations “committed allegedly by both the FRCI (Ivorian army) and the pro- Gbagbo militiamen who have been holding out in that district."
He went on to say that investigators are “particularly looking at an attack against a Baptist church allegedly by FRCI forces earlier in the week."
Nearly 500 people are confirmed to have died and up to one million have been displaced as a result of the post-election violence that was precipitated by Gbagbo’s refusal to step aside following his defeat to Alassane Ouattara in the UN-certified polls – a crisis that finally ended last month with Gbagbo’s surrender.
Also in Geneva, the Spokesperson for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Elizabeth Byrs, said that “the situation in Côte d’Ivoire should not be forgotten” as people there continue to need assistance and only 22 percent of the funds necessary “for the UN to continue their work" has been obtained so far.
Meanwhile, a sense of normalcy is slowly returning in many parts of the troubled West African nation. In Bouaké schools have reopened after being closed for several weeks because of the post-election crisis, but many students and teachers are still missing the call.
School Principal Diako Abdoulaye said that some students and teachers “have not yet been able to join us because certainly they are stuck in the cities where they fled.”
Banks began reopening across the country on last week after a ten-week shutdown. Thousands lined up to retrieve money and receive back-pay on salaries.
The banks were not able to service the overwhelming number of people who had turned up and customers expressed disappointment over shortages of cash.
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