Ivory Coast Incumbent Government Rejects Call for More UN Peacekeepers

Ivory Coast Incumbent Government Rejects Call for More UN Peacekeepers : The head of U.N. peacekeeping wants as many as 2,000 additional troops in Ivory Coast in the next few weeks to help resolve this political crisis.

But incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo says all of the nearly 10,000 U.N. peacekeepers who are in the country must leave because they have lost the confidence of civilians and are interfering in Ivory Coast's internal affairs.


Djedje says the United Nations mission in Ivory Coast has deviated from its original role and is now acting in complicity with rebels. Djedje says the Gbagbo government can not accept that and no longer trusts U.N. peacekeepers, so they must leave.

Some of those peacekeepers are guarding an Abidjan resort hotel that Alassane Ouattara has not left since Ivory Coast's electoral commission declared him the winner of November's presidential election. Former rebels who back Mr. Ouattara are also at the hotel, which Djedje says is a threat to security. Read More... For the latest updates PRESS CTR + D or visit Stock Market news Today

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