(Updates with South African response of air strikes at paragraph 14).
April 5 (Bloomberg) - Forces loyal to the elected President of C?te d'Ivoire Alassane Ouattara intensified their battle for the control of Abidjan, as the troops of the United Nations and the French attacked areas still controlled by the former leader of the helicopters Laurent Gbagbo.French and the United Nations fired on two bases of the armythe Presidential Palace and residence of Gbagbo after French President Nicolas Sarkozy has authorized its forces to help the soldiers of the United Nations to prevent heavy weapons used against civilians. Gbagbo is in discussions with the administration of the Ouattara to find a safe exit, said Ally Coulibaly, Ambassador of Ouattara either side France.Ivory has been locked in a political stalemate since an election on November 28 that Gbagbo, 65 and Ouattara69, claimed to have won. While the United Nations, the United States, the African Union and the European Union will recognize Ouattara as winner, Gbagbo has alleged electoral fraud and refused to relinquish power. The militia of the Ouattara, called the Republican Forces, today renewed attacks on the bastions of Gbagbo. "" I heard machine-gun fire and serious explosions since around 6 o'clock in the morning, ", said Alain Yapi, a resident of the Cocody district, which houses the residence of the Gbagbo.Les strikes of French and UN taken hours after the Republican forces of Ouattara said that they were from a new offensive to support the rest of the greater City of the country.Our first objective is to ensure that all of the city, and after that we want to break all the bastions of resistance, said Meite Sindou, spokesman for the fighters, by phone, yesterday.Presidential PalaceGbagbo negotiates to give, "because he realizes that it is the end of the road", Coulibaly said today in an interview on the radio based in Paris France Info. "He can continue is no longer in his obstinacy criminal to stay in power.". The end is near. "The comments were denied by Ahoua Don Mello, Gbagbo's spokesman, according to the press agency France. Gbagbo does not surrender "for the moment", AFP cited Mello said.The crisis has pushed the price of cocoa, of which Ivory Coast is the largest producer in the world, 33 per cent in the four months and caused the default country on Eurobonds.Cocoa and BondsThe denominated Eurobonds earned 7 percent $ 2.3 billionat 52.04 cents on the dollar, 10 h 36 in Abidjan, after falling yesterday for the first day in five years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Cocoa matched two days of gains, falling $51 or 1.7% to $2,969 per metric ton at 11: 38 pm in London. "The market price is probably for the French military involvement and the United Nations in C?te d'Ivoire, which, in practical terms, could contribute to the end the crisis in Abidjan earlier than later,"Samir Gadio, an emerging markets strategist based in London at the Standard Bank Group Ltd."said in a response by e-mail questions.Attacks of the mission of the United Nations were not in agreement with the forces of Ouattara, A spokesman Hamadoun Toure said in an interview broadcast on basis of Qatar Al Jazeera. "" We did not coordinate with forces Ouattara at all, "said Toure. "We have a mandate to prevent the use of heavy weapons against civilians."The South Africa criticized the air strikes. "I don't remember never give us a mandate to any force to aerial bombardments in C?te d'Ivoire,"Minister for Foreign Affairs Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, told a televised press conference today." "South Africa in both would not necessarily support that we have not voted for".KillingsPro-Gbagbo militias operating from the base of the Republican Guard in the Treichville neighbourhood killed "many people, including women who are are launched to get food and water," said Corinne Dufka, a researcher based at Dakar for Watch.Parts of the human rights of the Akouedo in Eastern Abidjan district were damaged After the explosion of a depot of ammunition yesterday, residents said.Gbagbo has retained control of the Presidential Palace, his personal residence and Agban military base West of the city centre after airstrikes by the United Nations and the France, said AFP, citing Mello. Attack of the dead "much", including members of the family of Gbagbo soldiers, said the report.Some companies have suspended operations in the embattled country. OAO Lukoil, second oil producer of the Russia, suspended operations and said it will resume when the subsidies post-election violence. GMG Global Ltd. of Singapore has stopped working on its rubber plantations and the plant after the closure of the borders of the country by Ouattara.Two French nationals were among five people taken from the Novotel hotel in Abidjan late yesterday after the security forces loyal to Gbagbo installation "research of foreigners" said Frederic Akessean employee. "They took five people with them and fled," he said.-With the help of Franz Wild in Johannesburg, Jason McLure in Accra and Gregory Viscusi in Paris. Editors: Emily Bowers, Philip Sanders, John Crilly
To contact the reporters on this story: Pauline Bax and Olivier Monnier in Abidjan via ebowers1@bloomberg.net Accra; Franz Wild in Johannesburg at fwild@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin to asguazzin@bloomberg.net.
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