Hotel du Golf

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The Hotel du Golf is a luxury hotel on the outskirts of the Ivorian metropolis Abidjan . It is located in the Cocody district near the beach and was named after the neighboring golf course. The French embassy and the presidential residence are nearby .

Government crisis 2010/2011

On the night of December 1st to 2nd, 2010, the chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission of the Ivory Coast, Youssouf Bakayoko from the hotel announced the victory of Ouattara, which was subsequently annulled by the Constitutional Council . The disagreements over the election result ultimately led to a bloody government crisis that lasted for months.

The hotel has been the seat of President-elect Alassane Ouattara since the end of 2010 , who was besieged there by troops of former President Laurent Gbagbo . During that time he was protected by around 900 UN soldiers from the Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire and French soldiers from the Opération Licorne . His Treasury Secretary Charles Diby was also at the hotel during the time.

In the week from December 27, 2010 to January 9, 2011, Gbagbo's troops cordoned off the Hotel du Golf. It could only be reached by helicopter.

Charles Blé Goudé called on his supporters Jeunes Patriotes on December 30th to occupy the Hotel du Golf on New Year's Day. It set an ultimatum until January 1st. On January 2nd, he canceled the storm to give the negotiations a chance.

On January 4, 2011, Gbagbo promised to end the blockade of the hotel, but it was still upright the next morning.

The siege ring only came loose at the end of March 2011. Ouattara was in the hotel for most of the crisis. He only left it at short notice from March 10-14, 2011 for a special session of the African Union .

On the basis of talks between Ouattara and the leadership of the Ivorian army (FANCI) and the paramilitary gendarmerie , which took place before March 28, 2011, it was decided, among other things, to lift the blockade of the Hotel du Golf.

On April 9, Gbagbo's troops attacked the Hotel du Golf for the first time, according to a UN spokesman. The UN troops would have shot back. At least four people were killed in the battle. When the fighting subsided the next day, hundreds of residents fled the area. Gbagbo's spokesman, Ahoua Don Mello , vigorously disagreed on April 10, claiming the attack never took place.

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Individual evidence

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  7. ↑ Gbabgo has Ouattara headquarters sealed off ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ↑ Dominic Johnson: Shot, Hacked, Displaced. In: the daily newspaper. March 9, 2011, accessed April 1, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Another city in the hands of Ouattara-loyal fighters. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 14, 2011, accessed April 1, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Thomas Scheen: Brutal fight for Abidjan. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 1, 2011, accessed April 11, 2011 .
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  12. ↑ Gbagbo's forces are gaining ground. In: the daily newspaper. April 10, 2011, accessed April 15, 2011 .

Coordinates: 5 ° 19 ′ 47.3 "  N , 3 ° 58 ′ 22.2"  W.