Treaty of Ouagadougou

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The Treaty of Ouagadougou ( Accord de Ouagadougou ) is a peace treaty that was signed on March 4, 2007 between the conflicting parties in the civil war from 2002 to 2007 in Ivory Coast . After three failed peace initiatives, it was the fourth agreement in five years and, within a short period of time, led to a permanent ceasefire, the dismantling of the buffer zone between the government and the rebels, and serious preparations for presidential elections. In contrast to the previous peace treaties (created through French and South African mediation), this agreement came about in direct discussions between the parties involved.

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The signatories of the contract are the then Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo , the head of the rebel Forces Nouvelles , Guillaume Soro and the President of Burkina Faso , Blaise Compaoré . The agreements that this treaty seals are largely similar to those of previous treaties and UN resolution 1721 . These are in detail:

  • Article 1: Identification of the population, distribution of identity cards and ID cards to all entitled persons. This affected about three million people who did not have valid papers.
  • Article 2: Holding transparent presidential elections within 10 months
  • Article 3: Disarm and demobilize the armed militias, rebuild a national army and integrate the demobilized soldiers into this army. A total of 40,000 armed men were demobilized.
  • Article 4: Reunification of the Ivory Coast, which until then had been split into a northern and a southern part, as well as reintroduction of public administration in the northern part controlled by the Forces Nouvelles
  • Article 5: Commitment to political normalization and democracy
  • Article 6: Measures for Peace and National Reconciliation
  • Article 7: Establishment of a concertation framework and evaluation committee

consequences

In the further consequence of this contract rebel leader Soro received the office of Prime Minister in the newly formed government. This gave him a good opportunity to distinguish himself as a statesman in order to later run for president.

Through this contract, Gbagbo was able to overthrow the Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny, who had been in office until then . This was imposed on him by the international community and was increasingly seen by Gbagbo as a competitor. However, due to insufficient age, Soro was not eligible to run for president.

The Center de Commandement des Opérations de Sécurité (CECOS) was founded on the basis of the contract.

Blaise Compaoré has made a name for himself internationally as an influential politician. In addition, it solved a number of problems for Burkina Faso: Foreign trade had come to a standstill as a result of the civil war, as it was largely handled via the port of Abidjan. As a result, imported products had become considerably more expensive. In addition, many citizens of Burkina Faso who were resident as guest workers in Ivory Coast had fled the chaos of war to their home country and threatened to upset the social structure there.

With Article 3 of the Treaty of Ouagadougou, Alassane Ouattara founded the Forces républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire during the government crisis of 2010/2011 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Treaty of Ouagadougou of March 4, 2007. download  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.iss.co.za  
  2. ↑ a b Bettina Engels: A little peace. Labournet.de Germany, January 8, 2008. Visited online on November 14, 2008.
  3. ^ David Robert: The Ouagadougou Agreement. Konrad Adenauer Foundation, November 3, 2008 (online) . Visited on November 14, 2008.
  4. ↑ Klaus D. Loetzer, Anja Casper: Two presidents and no way out of the political crisis. In: Konrad Adenauer Foundation . December 22, 2010, accessed April 8, 2011 .
  5. ↑ David Robert and Corinna Heuer: The Côte d'Ivoire between optimism and skepticism. Country report of the regional program Political Dialogue West Africa, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, May 9, 2007 (online)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Visited on November 14, 2008.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kas.de  
  6. ↑ Ouattara signs decree to unify Cote d'Ivoire's security forces. (No longer available online.) In: SousLeManguier. March 18, 2011, archived from the original on January 9, 2012 ; accessed on March 22, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / english.souslemanguier.com