Yopougon

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Districts of Abidjan. Yopougon is to the west

Yopougon is a district of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast .

Population according to the 2014 census is 1,071,543.

Yopougun is the seat of the Yopougon diocese and it is also home to the largest slums of Abidjan.

history

In October 2000, during the presidential elections, fierce street battles took place across Abidjan. Then the so-called “ Charnier de Youpogon ” (French for “ mass grave of Yopougon ”) was found in Yopougon . Inside were the bodies of more than 50 people, mostly from the north. The perpetrators were suspected to be in the ranks of the gendarmerie .

On December 28, 2010, an angry crowd attacked a UN convoy in Yopougon. They injured a UN soldier with a machete and set one of the three vehicles on fire.

In the course of the government crisis of 2010/2011 , fighting between rebels of the invisible commandos and the then Ivorian armed forces (FDS) broke out in Yopougon, which was considered the stronghold of Laurent Gbagbo . On the night of March 14-15 , 2011, the residence of Philippe Mangou , then Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, was attacked. On April 1, Gbagbo supporters roamed the streets of Yopougon. On April 12, 14 bodies of adolescents were found who had been shot in the head. In Yopougon there has been fighting since April 21st between the Forces républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire (FRCI) and militias loyal to Gbagbo such as the Jeunes Patriotes , in whose hands it remained after Abijan's capture and Gbagbo's arrest. Eyewitnesses reported troop movements and explosions. Also on April 25th there was gunfire in Yopougon.

Sons and daughters

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Thomas Scheen: Heavy fighting in Abidjan. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 15, 2011, accessed March 18, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Results of the 2014 census . Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ Dominic Johnson : Gbagbo gives up. In: the daily newspaper . April 5, 2011, accessed April 12, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Scheen: Countless old accounts. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. December 23, 2010, accessed May 12, 2011 .
  5. ^ Ivory Coast: Attack on UN blue helmets. In: OE24. December 28, 2010, accessed May 30, 2011 .
  6. ^ A b Hans-Georg Toeche-Mittler: In Ivory Coast there is now a threat of a war among winners. In: Focus . April 22, 2011, Retrieved April 28, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Dominic Johnson: Battle for Abidjan. In: the daily newspaper. April 1, 2011, accessed April 5, 2011 .
  8. ^ Johannes Dieterich: Ouattara's difficult message. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 12, 2011, accessed April 22, 2011 .
  9. ↑ a b Gunfire and explosions in Abidjan. In: ORF . April 26, 2011, accessed April 28, 2011 .

Coordinates: 5 ° 20 ′  N , 4 ° 4 ′  W