Côte d’Ivoire and the ONUCI

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Located in the western part of Africa, notably surrounded by Liberia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire constitutes an isolated case in the African History of the twentieth century. Indeed, considered as a model of African success from its decolonisation in 1960 until the beginning of the 1980s – period more commonly known as the miracle ivoirien or Ivorian miracle- Ivory Coast has however sunk into a devastating civil war in 1999. Besides, Ivory Coast became after Djibouti the second former African French colony to have been affected by this kind of fratricide conflict. Since then, Ivory Coast seems to have been unable to find an exit door to its crisis. More worrying again, its economy as well as its political lives are still currently entrenched. Nevertheless, many international actors concerned by the Ivorian crisis have, since 1999, invested Côte d'Ivoire. In 2004, the UN created the ONUCI (Opération des Nations Unies pour la Côte d'Ivoire)- a special UN operation for Côte d'Ivoire in order to help this country to recover from its ongoing crisis.

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[...] Statistics issued from the 2006 French Foreign Affairs report on Ivory Coast. Ibid In Atlas historique de l'Afrique des origines à nos jours. B. Lugan. Editions du Rocher (2001) In The State of Africa. Martin Meredith. Jonathan Ball Publisher. Johannesburg Ibid Reconceptualizing state-society relations in Tanzania: are NGOs 'making a difference'? Claire Mercer. Area. [...]

[...] In 2004, the UN created the ONUCI (Opération des Nations Unies pour la Côte d'Ivoire)- a special UN operation for Côte d'Ivoire in order to help this country to recover from its ongoing crisis. This study will assess the relationships between this particular UN missions with Ivory Coast. Moreover, I will attempt to mainly articulate my analysis around the concept of good governance. This way, in order to better understand Côte d'Ivoire's present crisis, I will first analyse development indicators as well as general economic data of Ivory Coast before briefly treating the Ivorian History from its decolonisation up to now (II). [...]

[...] Indeed, within more than two years of ONUCI's experience Ivory Coast is unfortunately very similar to 2004 Ivory Coast. Bibliography Comment Chirac a perdu . et pourquoi Gbagbo n'a pas gagné. François Soudan. Jeune Afrique (10/2006) La Méhode Konan Banny.Elimane Fall and Pascal Airault. Jeune Afrique n°2375. (07/2006) Côte d'Ivoire : ADO au pays. Ehoumane Kassy. Afrique magazine 248. (05/2006) Côte d'Ivoire : La Galaxie Gbagbo. [...]

[...] Claire Mercer. Area. Blackwell Synergy (1999). Website of the INSI : www.insi.ci Website of the ONUCI:www.onuci.org Website of French Foreign Affairs: www.diplomatie.gouv.fr Institut national de la statistique ivoirienne (INSI)- reference available on the website of the INSI : www.ins.ci Ibid. Ibid Ibid Ibid Statistics issued from the 2003 UN report on Ivory Coast. Ibid Ibid Institut national de la statistique ivoirienne (INSI)- reference available on the website of the INSI : www.ins.ci Ibid Ibid Ibid Ibid Statistics issued from the 2003 UN report on Ivory Coast. [...]

[...] After his death in 1993, his successor at the head of his political party-the PDCI (Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire)- won the first post-Boigny elections. It is with little doubt that one can assert that it is the advent of Bédié's presidency that has brought about civil war in Ivory Coast. Indeed, unlike Houphouët-Boigny, who was very careful in avoiding any ethnic conflict and left access to Ivorian nationality wide-open to immigrants from neighboring countries, Bedié emphasized and created a new concept: L'Ivoirité or Ivority. [...]