Chronicle of the government crisis in Ivory Coast in January 2011

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The chronicle of the government crisis in Ivory Coast in January 2011 records the events in connection with the government crisis in Ivory Coast 2010/2011 .

The chronology is arranged according to years and months. Events that take effect over a longer period of time are sorted at the earliest possible date.

date event place description Note, sources
January 1st accusations Laurent Gbagbo accused the soldiers of the Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI) of shooting civilians in the attack on the UN convoy on December 28 and 29.
Laurent Gbagbo (2007)
January 1st ultimatum Gbagbo let an ultimatum by Alassane Ouattara pass, according to which he should have resigned by New Year's Day. He described the pressure on him as an " attempted coup under the banner of the international community "
Alassane Ouattara
January 1st International reactions In a telephone conversation with Ouattara, Ban Ki Moon reiterated the UN's support for him.
Ban Ki Moon
January 2nd Hotel du Golf Abidjan Charles Blé Goudé canceled the storming of the Hotel du Golf in order to give the negotiations with the African Union (AU) and the West African Economic Community (ECOWAS) a chance.
Flag of the AU
January 3rd diplomacy Negotiations with a delegation of West African heads of state were planned. The diplomats sent by the AU could not make any progress. Ouattara said there should be no further negotiations.
Member states of ECOWAS
January 3rd Struggles Duékoué Heavy fighting broke out between rival militias. There were at least four deaths.
Night from January 3rd to 4th diplomacy The heads of state of Benin , Sierra Leone and Cape Verde left the Ivory Coast.
January 4th 5:00 am attack Soldiers loyal to Gbagbo attacked the headquarters of the Rassemblement des Houphouëtistes pour la Démocratie et la Paix (RHDP) , which supported Ouattara . About 20 supporters of Ouattara were arrested.
January 4th attack Gbagbo security forces stormed the headquarters of the former Unity Party Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI), part of Ouattara's electoral alliance , killing one person.
January 4th Hotel du Golf Abidjan Members of the negotiating delegation of the AU and ECOWAS reported that Gbagbo was ready to negotiate directly with Ouattara without preconditions and that he would lift the siege of the Hotel du Golf. Goodluck Jonathan emphasized that Gbagbo would be driven out of office with " legitimate violence " if he was not willing to give up voluntarily.
Goodluck Jonathan
January 4th intervention France Nicolas Sarkozy categorically ruled out any military intervention by France.
Nicolas Sarkozy (2008)
Week before January 5th Struggles UN convoys were attacked several times.
Morning of January 5th Hotel du Golf Abidjan The Hotel du Golf was still cordoned off. It was now clear that Gbagbo's promise from the previous day was not kept.
January 5th intervention Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga said that ECOWAS and the AU are still reserving a military solution as a last resort. As a special mediator of the AU, Odinga had joined the mediators of ECOWAS.
Raila Odinga
January 5th diplomacy Ouattara feared that Gbagbo was only using the negotiations to rally his militias. He expressly refused to use Ecowas troops.
January 5th refugees Liberia The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that 22,000 people had already fled to Liberia. It is mainly women and children from the west of the Ivory Coast. Both supporters of Gbagbo and Ouattara are on the run who are afraid of repression from the respective opposing side. The people were particularly welcomed in the Nimba region . A first refugee camp was set up in the border town of Sacleapea .
January 5th U.N. The United Nations asked Gbagbo to stop the propaganda against its employees.
6th January diplomacy Gbagbo defies the ambassadors of Canada and Great Britain , the accreditation as a response to similar steps both countries in late December.
6th January Sanctions Later that day, the United States announced that it had imposed extensive sanctions on Laurent Gbagbo. Business with Gbagbo, his wife Simone and his confidants Désiré Asségnini Tagro , Pascal Affi N'Guessan and Alcide Djédjé were prohibited. All of their possessions have been frozen.
Simone Gbabgbo (2006)
Désiré Asségnini Tagro (2008)
6th January cocoa The Ivory Coast Cocoa Exchange announced that the October-March harvest season has not yet suffered from the conflict. With 600,000 tons of cocoa, a good 50 percent more was harvested than in the previous year.
6th January Victim According to Simon Munzu, ONUCI's human rights officer, at least 210 people have died so far.
6th January Struggles Duékoué In the Duékoué region , 14 people died in fighting between two ethnic groups, triggered by the death of a woman in a robbery. According to the UN and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRC), however, there is no direct connection to the government crisis. Nevertheless, the dead are counted among the 210 victims since the beginning of the crisis.
January 7th diplomacy Canada / UK Canada and Great Britain rejected Gbabgo's request to withdraw their ambassadors on the grounds that Gbagbo's government was illegal and the request was therefore ineffective.
January 3rd to 7th refugees The ICRC announced that 10,000 people had fled during the period. Many of them are in the overcrowded Catholic mission in the city of Duékoué.
January 8th diplomacy Abidjan Olusegun Obasanjo , the former Nigerian president, arrived to persuade Gbagbo to resign.
Olusegun Obasanjo (2005)
10. January negotiations Ouattara-appointed UN Ambassador Youssoufou Bamba said Ouattara was considering forming a coalition government. The prerequisite, however, is that Gbagbo resign from office and waive all claims. A Gbagbo spokesman dismissed the proposal the next day as a "red herring".
10. January refugees UNHCR reported that around 40,000 people have fled violence in neighboring countries, primarily Liberia, since the election.
10. January Struggles Abidjan At least four people were killed in a police operation. UN peacekeepers were prevented from intervening by a crowd and had to flee.
from January 11th Sanctions Europe Almost the entire Aké N'Gbo government was affected by European Union sanctions . Its members were not allowed to enter the EU and their funds were frozen.
Evening of January 11th Struggles Abidjan Three ONUCI soldiers were injured in a shooting.
11th January Struggles Abobo / Abidjan At least five people were killed in clashes between supporters of Ouattara and security forces. According to eyewitnesses, the security forces took action against youths who set up roadblocks. ONUCI troops then left the neighborhood.
January 12th Struggles Abidjan According to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, members of the Forces de défense et de sécurité (FDS) attacked an ONUCI vehicle and then burned it down.
13th January Struggles Riviera II / Abidjan According to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon , regular and irregular troops loyal to Gbagbo set six ONUCI vehicles, among others, in Abidjan, in the Riviera II district, and then set them on fire. A doctor and a driver were injured.
An ONUCI vehicle set on fire by youths at an intersection in Riviera II, Abidjan
13th January media Ban Ki-moon once again complained about the continued use of the state broadcaster Radiodiffusion-Télévision ivoirienne (RTI) with the aim of stirring up violence against the UN mission.
13th January International reactions Angola Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos proposed new elections. He had previously criticized the United Nations, which he accused of misleading the international community.
José Eduardo dos Santos
January 14th Sanctions Europe The EU is imposing sanctions against Philippe-Henry Dacoury-Tabley , the then director of the West African Central Bank (BCEAO) and personal friend of Gbagbo.
January 14th U.N. Ban Ki-moon announced that the UN had concrete intelligence evidence that Gbagbo and those around him incited violence against ONUCI troops.
Around January 15th (January 14th?) Sanctions Europe The EU put in place sanctions against 88 Gbagbo-affiliated politicians and 11 Ivory Coast companies.
15. January Victims and refugees According to the UNHCR, around 250 people have died so far. 49 people were thought to have disappeared. 25,000 Ivorians fled abroad, mainly to Liberia and around 6,000 were internally displaced.
January 17th Finances Philippe-Henry Dacoury-Tabley has transferred around 150 million euros to Gbagbo since December 23, 2010, contrary to the statutes of the West African Central Bank (BCEAO).
January 17th diplomacy The Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga visited Gbagbo in the presidential palace to persuade him to resign. He justified this with an otherwise threatening " crisis of confidence ". The visit lasted two and a half hours. A conversation with Ouattara was planned the next day.
January 17th Victim So far, 247 people are said to have died in the riots.
January 19th Sanctions Switzerland The Swiss Federal Council decided to freeze all possible assets of Gbagbo and those around him in Switzerland with immediate effect. It should not be possible to withdraw these funds from their rightful owners via Switzerland, the Federal Council justified the decision. This affected 85 natural persons and eleven legal persons, organizations and institutions.
January 19th Security Council new York In resolution 1967, the UN Security Council decided to increase the ONUCI by 2,000 to a total of 12,000 men.
January 19th diplomacy Kenya The Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga declared his mediation attempt to have failed.
January 19th intervention Ouattara described an ECOWAS military intervention as " already planned and organized ".
Week before January 20th Struggles Six UN vehicles were attacked by crowds and Ivorian security forces.
January 20th intervention Bamako A meeting of the chiefs of staff of the ECOWAS troops took place in order to plan a possible intervention. The Nigerian General Olusegun Petinrin then declared that the military was ready. It's just waiting for the start command.
January 20th Victims and refugees ONUCI announced that the number of refugees has now risen to 29,000. In the meantime, 260 people have been killed in the riots and there are 68 missing. In the previous week alone, Gbagbo's troops and militias had killed 13 people.
January 20th U.N. A military spokesman on television announced an order from Gbagbo. The UN vehicles are to be stopped and searched by the Ivorian security forces. UN spokeswoman Corinne Momal-Vanian called the order illegal the next day.
22nd of January diplomacy France France recognizes Ali Coulibaly , appointed by Ouattara as ambassador to France . On the same day, in response to this, Gbagbo withdrew the accreditation of the French ambassador in Abidjan and let it be known that he would henceforth consider him to be an “ unemployed and ordinary French citizen ”.
22nd of January Finances Philippe-Henry Dacoury-Tabley resigns as director of the BCEAO. In the following days, the BCEAO branch in Abidjan closes. Without this, banks in the Ivory Coast can no longer raise cash from reserves and can no longer make transfers to one another. In addition, the BCEAO implemented a resolution made on December 23, 2010 and revoked Gbagbo's right to sign the Ivorian deposits.
January 24th intervention Nigerian Foreign Minister Odein Ajumogobia said in a newspaper comment that his country needed the clear approval of the UN Security Council for a military intervention in Ivory Coast.
January 24th Cocoa / coffee Ouattara announced a ban on exports of cocoa and coffee and announced sanctions for non-compliance. In response, Ahoua Don Mello , infrastructure minister in the Gbagbo cabinet , threatened to impose sanctions on companies that responded to the call. The cocoa price reacted with brief price increases of up to seven percent. The US company Cargill announced that it would stop buying cocoa and beans from Ivory Coast.
January 26th Finances Abidjan Units of the army, gendarmerie and police cordon off the BCEAO headquarters and transport the cash holdings until the evening. According to the French newspaper Le Nouveau Reveil , it is said to have been around 50 billion CFA francs , equivalent to 76 million euros.
January 26th report Human Rights Watch released a report on the situation in the country. Over 100 eyewitnesses were interviewed. They report murders and rape by supporters of Gbagbo against political opponents. The security forces did not intervene or, in many cases, participated in the attacks.
January 27th Epidemics The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced that 7 people had died of cholera in Abidjan . At the time, 35 diseases were known. The cause of the epidemic, according to Bamba Coulibaly , head of the Communicable Diseases Department at the Institute for Public Health and National Hygiene, was due to the city's inoperative garbage disposal. In the north and west of Ivory Coast, 66 cases of yellow fever have also been reported, which has resulted in 11 deaths so far.
January 28th diplomacy After a meeting of the AU Security Council, the Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz announced the formation of a five-member advisory body that would present a mandatory plan to resolve the conflict within the next month. Further details should be determined at the AU summit on January 30th.
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (2011)
January 28th warning On January 28, the AU mediator in Ivory Coast, Raila Odinga , spoke of the possibility of an escalation through a civil war threatening the entire region.

Individual evidence

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