Duékoué
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| District : | Mondays | ||
| Region : | Moyen-Cavally | ||
| Department : | Duékoué | ||
| Coordinates : | 6 ° 44 ′ N , 7 ° 21 ′ W | ||
| Residents : | 185,344 (2011) | ||
Duékoué is a city in the west of the Ivory Coast . It is located in the mountainous forest region of Moyen-Cavally and, according to the 2014 census, has 185,334 inhabitants.
Infrastructure
The city has a connection to Liberia.
In Duékoué there is a large mission area with two churches, a chapel and several office buildings.
economy
Around Duékoué cocoa is grown, gold is illegally mined, wood is cleared and trade is carried out. The city is characterized by poverty .
population
The population of Duékoué is multi-ethnic. However, for years there have been clashes between the local ethnic group der Weh and their militia Front de Liberation du Grand Ouest (FLGO) and immigrant workers from Burkina Faso over control of the lucrative cocoa plantations. With the beginning of the civil war in 2002, numerous Burkinabe were chased out of the region because the woe accused them of common cause with the rebels from the Muslim north.
history
Violent unrest in Duékoué broke out in the wake of the 2010 presidential elections in Ivory Coast . At least 14 people were killed and 10,000 to 15,000 fled the city. In the subsequent government crisis on January 3, 2011, heavy fighting broke out between rival militias. There were at least four deaths. 14 people were killed in fighting in the region on January 6th. At the beginning of March 2011, Laurent Gbagbo's troops against units of the rebel coalition Forces Nouvelles that support Alassane Ouattara . The city fell into the hands of the Forces républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire (FRCI) on March 29, 2011 .
Between March 28 and 30, 2011, a massacre resulted in several hundred deaths. According to an AFP reporter , most of the city's houses were burned.
During the capture, around 30,000 people fled from the FRCI soldiers on the city's mission site. Around 2,400 people were still living there in December.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Dominic Johnson : The new Ivorian civil war begins. In: The daily newspaper . January 6, 2011, accessed January 7, 2011 .
- ↑ Results of the 2014 census . Retrieved January 6, 2016.
- ↑ Followers of Ouattara start offensive. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 29, 2011, accessed April 4, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Katrin Gänsler: "We are not yet safe". In: The daily newspaper . December 15, 2011, accessed December 15, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Thomas Scheen: Brutal battles and massacres. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 3, 2011, accessed April 3, 2011 .
- ↑ Dominic Johnson: Gbagbo remains stubborn. In: The daily newspaper . Retrieved June 17, 2011 .
- ^ Ivory Coast: US Sanctions Against Gbagbo. In: The press . January 7, 2011, accessed June 22, 2011 .
- ^ Johannes Dieterich: Battles in "Bagdad City". In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 17, 2011, accessed March 18, 2011 .
- ↑ Extended military offensive in Ivory Coast. In: ORF. March 29, 2011, accessed April 4, 2011 .
- ↑ Dominic Johnson: Similar to genocide. In: the daily newspaper. April 3, 2011, accessed April 4, 2011 .
- ↑ «We killed who we could kill» . In: Tages-Anzeiger . April 3, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2011.