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Abobo (Ivory Coast)
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Basic data
District : Abidjan
Department : Abidjan
Mayor : Adama Tounkara, RDR
Coordinates : 5 ° 26 ′  N , 4 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 5 ° 26 ′  N , 4 ° 1 ′  W
Area : 82 km²
Residents : 1,030,658 (2014 census)
Location Abobos, in the far north, within Abidjan

Abobo is a former immigrant quarter of Abidjan and has been an independent city in the agglomeration and district of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast since 2002 . It is also called Baghdad City .

The area is 82 km². According to the national Ivorian electoral commission, the population in 1998 was 638,237 people. According to the 2014 census, the population is 1,030,658. The majority of the population belongs to poorer strata of the middle class, who often only find a meager livelihood in the shadow economy.

traffic

Abobo lies on the Abidjan-Niger Railway , which runs from Vridi and Treichville via Bouaké to Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso . The city is considered the first train station after Treichville, even if there are still a few small stations in between. The quickest connection to the center of Abidjan ( Plateau , Cocody , Treichville) is provided by minibuses. Most of the Abobos roads are earthen and only partially passable with vehicles after rainfalls.

religion

Most of the residents are Catholic Christians . In Abobo-Avocatier is the parish of St Jean-Baptiste (French for St. John the Baptist ). The church Ste Marie d'Agoueto was built in 1992 and in 2005 raised to the status of a parish. It almost exclusively looks after immigrants and senior citizens, both of whom are poorly funded sections of the population. Aimé Malan is the pastor. On Palm Sunday 2005, the Archbishop of Abidjan, Bernard Cardinal Agré, visited the parish. The Xavers sisters , an Ignatian religious order , have been in Abobo-Avocatier since 2002. The four sisters are active in socio-cultural animation and work in medical care with the parish of St Jean-Baptiste.

politics

Abobo is the only city in Abidjan in which not the ruling party Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI), but the opposition Rassemblement des Républicains of Alassane Dramane Ouattara (RDR) has a majority. That is why the public civil rights negotiations , known as audiences foraines , were held in August 2006 despite tangible threats from the Jeunes Patriotes thugs .

history

In February 2011, as a result of the 2010/2011 government crisis over the result of the 2010 presidential election , fierce fighting broke out in Abobo. Dozens of people died and thousands are on the run. So-called " Commando invisible " (German " Invisible Commands ") fought on the side of Alassane Ouattara against Gbagbo-loyal troops such as the Jeunes Patriotes. In March 2011 Ibrahim Coulibaly identified himself as one of the leaders of the " Invisible Commands ".

On March 17, 2011, according to spokesman for the United Nations Operation in Ivory Coast (ONUCI) Hamadane Toure , six rockets fired by Gbagbo's troops killed 30 civilians in a market in Abobo.

After Gbagbo's arrest on April 11th, tension arose between the FRCI and the Invisible Commandos who opposed the arrest. Ibrahim Coulibaly was shot dead on April 27, 2011 during an FRCI offensive in Abobo.

education

There is a shortage of school buildings. According to the government newspaper Fraternité Matin , from the 2006/2007 school year schoolchildren should therefore be driven to distant Bingerville , which the parents oppose, as the approximately 20-kilometer journey is too long and care outside of school is not guaranteed.

A Catholic religious order runs a "sidewalk library " to meet the financial shortage of books and to give the children the opportunity to use the reading they have learned in school.

For orphans there has been an Austrian SOS Children's Village for around 120 boys and girls behind the train station since 1971. It emerged from an orphanage with 15 places, which a priest, Father Martin, had already set up in the 1960s. The children's village has had its own primary school since 1995 and a kindergarten since 1998. These are also accessible to children from the surrounding streets.

The Abobo-Adjamé University is located here. According to Amnesty International reports, Akpélé Akpélé Marcellin, a student, was killed in a raid on the premises of Abobo University in January 1997. He is believed to have died as a result of being beaten by the security forces. The then Minister of Security declined to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death. This event is related to the elections boycotted by the opposition in 1995 and the resulting actions by the state against the opposition and students in the following years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of the 2014 census . Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  2. ^ Johannes Dieterich: Battles in "Bagdad City". In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 17, 2011, accessed March 18, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Comment Obtenir l'organization d'une Audience Foraine. Le Rassemblement Des Républicains de Cte ​​d'Ivoire, archived from the original on October 19, 2007 ; accessed on February 10, 2014 (French).
  4. ↑ L'intelligent d'Abidjan newspaper , July 26, 2006 ( Memento of October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ TAZ: There are corpses everywhere
  6. ↑ Stefan Klein: The scouts of evil. In: Süddeutsche . March 7, 2011, accessed March 30, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Thomas Scheen: Heavy fighting in Abidjan. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 15, 2011, accessed March 18, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Up to 30 civilians killed in attack. In: ORF . March 18, 2011, accessed March 18, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Dominic Johnson : End of a Civil War Legend. In: the daily newspaper. April 28, 2011. Retrieved April 29, 2011 .