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2011年4月6日星期三

Libyan ship sinks off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa. Missing 130

10: 01 Am EDT by Karl Stagno Navarra, 06 April 2011

April 6 (Bloomberg) - to 130 refugees are missing after their boat broke in rough seas off the coast of the coasts of the Italian island of Lampedusa, officials said.

About 200 people have been reported the boat who left the Libya destination for Italy or Malta, said the Major Ivan Consiglio, a spokesman for the armed forces of Malta. A satellite phone distress call was made by migrants to Malta last night, he said. The call was traced and contact support - 39 miles (63 km) off the coast of Lampedusa - have been transmitted to the Guard.When coast an Italian cutter Italian ship reached the area, rough seas had recovered boat of migrants in half, throwing overboard of all passengers. So far 47 persons have been rescued and 15 bodies were seen, Sandro Nicastro, Commander of Coast Guard Command Center the Italy, said in a telephone interview. Italian and Maltese ships are the search for survivors, said Nicastro. Bad weather is obstructing the rescue operation. "We fear many dead," he said.About 2,000 Eritrean, Somali and Sudanese who fled Tripoli by boat into the Italy and Malta in the last days, the High Commissioner of the United Nations for refugees said in a statement.

-Editors: Leon Mangasarian, Patrick Henry.

To contact the reporter on this story: Karl Stagno Navarra to Valletta, Malta to ksnavarra@bloomberg.net.

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2011年4月5日星期二

For Ivory Coast refugees ticking clock

Oxfam says more than 100,000 people crossed refugees are the border of C?te d'Ivoire to Liberia families by fighting on foot for four days that are achieving Liberian border homes in border villages share with more than 30 people, Oxfam says it is the rainy season providing aid to these villages remote jungle pull

(CNN) warn help organizations of an impending humanitarian crisis for tens of thousands of refugees, who arrived after fleeing violence in C?te d'Ivoire and in Liberia.

International aid communications agency Oxfam says more than 100,000 people crossed the border from Ivory Coast villages have to Liberia and lives in a precarious situation in jungle.

The agency according to there are many stories of women separating husbands, arrival in Liberia children of their parents, and some not survive the journey through rivers and forests lost.

The refugees displaced by the fighting that has swept in C?te d'Ivoire. The International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday that had 800 people in the Western cocoa-producing town of Duekoue was shot dead. A UN officials the 330 Friday's death toll.

The violence broke after a controversial election November both Laurent Gbagbo and rival to Alassane Ouattara, who led Presidency. The international community recognised Ouattara as legitimate winner but Gbagbo refused to cede, power and violence has the nation engulfed.

Background on what the cause of the conflict in C?te d'Ivoire.

As the rainy season approaches and fight escalates is the country in which, the Oxfam of this time warning is just, flee for help for refugees in this remote villages.

When the rains come, we will not be able to reach them, because the entire area will become inaccessible.
--Caroline gluck, Oxfam, Liberia

"If the rains come, it will fail, to reach them, because the entire area will become inaccessible,", explains Caroline Gluck, who works for Oxfam in Liberia. "The clock is ticking, people to secure and accessible."

She added that the influx of refugees that doubling is populations of some of the border villages and is a heavy burden on local, little food and facilities themselves have place.

Glug some of which has Ivory Coast, among them Gustave Glawoulou, whose Heimatstadt Blolequin interviewed came under attack by rebels escape. Glug said he fled in the middle of the night with his five children began the shots.

Glawoulou told Gluck he went for four days with his family to reach the Liberian border. To eat everything that you had, things were to find that in the forest. Now, in a border village called Ponah, he says conditions are very hard.

"There are 35 of us living in a house;" If not, we go it rains outside can, but if it rains we remain in crouched on a mat upright sitzen-- there is no place are, "he told Gluck."

"We want to leave this place, because there are too many of us, and from day to day always is it worse," Glawoulou told her. "After two or three months it could get very difficult as people are starting to get sicker because of bad food and shelter."

CNN could not independently verify this account.

Glug explained that many of the refugees in the villages have been border because they are close to their homes, and because they think they will find there and can lead relatively normal lives.

She says that many hate go to Commons if it is of the opinion it no economic opportunities.

The International Committee of the Red Cross works with Ivorian refugees in Liberia. It also warns that the growing number of refugees puts a heavy strain on Liberia host communities and says that it has registered more than 50 refugee children who have been separated from their parents.

Plan international, a children's organization works in Liberia, reported that some young people are completely traumatized by their experiences.

"Along the border of Liberia in Nimba County, I met refugee children, who could not smile and could not play." Also, they were shocked by all the violence, which had seen them, "said Berenger Berehoudougou from the group."

Also, plan says that it mostly women and children across the border from C?te d'Ivoire. "I saw only a few men."I know not what happened to the men and young, said Berehoudougou. "Some young people have told me their brothers and fathers for one of the sides in the conflict in Ivory Coast." But no one seems sure back happen in their home country, "he added."

Glug another of refugees that you had spoken with who was 15-year-old Stephane Ranhou, who arrived in the small border village Janzon, in South Eastern Liberia, with his younger sister Vanessa said. Glug said that they were, become separated from their parents and seven siblings as they fled the fighting in the documentation, and were now fed by local families.

"The villagers have their own problems, but they were very generous open their homes and provide protection for the Flüchtlinge--but there a severe lack of food, shelter and medical care are". Glug said.

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Forces hope to use Ivory Coast leader

Pro-Ouattara soldiers ride an armed vehicle in front of the Golf hotel in Abidjan on Tuesday.Pro-Ouattara soldiers riding forces say an armed vehicle at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan on Tuesday.Alassane Ouattara expect them, collect Laurent Gbagbo from TuesdayU.N. Peacekeepers are trying to prevent attacks on CiviliansOuattara is internationally recognised winner of presidential elections in C?te d'Ivoire

(CNN) - fighters surrounded the presidential palace of Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday, hoping to capture the embattled leader.

The fighters, loyal to President Alassane Ouattara, were 80% sure that Gbagbo was still in the residence, said Patrick Achi, a spokesman for Ouattara.

"We do not see why he will not abandon," Achi said Monday, add the new Gbagbo Government by the International Court of Justice have tried search can.

CNN could not independently Achi's claims, which confirm a report included that Gbagbo's TV station was destroyed.

But at least one resident in Abidjan said Gbagbo's Government TV channel since Monday dark had been; early Tuesday, nothing out of the station was transferred.

The man who did not want to use his name, said so many feel insecure and fear shots all over the city like a soundtrack Monday, played.

Uncertainty and fear constant in parts of the Ivory Coast was in recent weeks as screwed a presidential standoff in a civil war has.

'Clock is ticking for refugees from Ivory Coast'

The unrest dates back to November when Gbagbo transferred refused power on Ouattara, the International President of the country after elections recognized as.

Supporters of each side are in many cities of the west African country clashed, and have in the past few days the international troops jumped into the fray.

The cause of United Nations to prevent the use of heavy weapons against civilians and United Nations peace-keeping force helicopter to a camp on Monday controlled by Gbagbo, said a spokesman for un.

UN peacekeeping Director Alain Le Roy told reporters of the body takes sides in the conflict, but be after three days of from Gbagbo left four UN peacekeepers seriously injured had.

France also 350 peacekeepers to the country over the weekend and took control of the airport in Abidjan, the French Ministry of Defense said Sunday. The existing UN peacekeeping mission around 7,500 troops joined the new French troops already in the country.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday that had 800 people to death in the Western cocoa-producing town of Duekoue was shot dead. A UN officials the 330 Friday's death toll.

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Fighting in Ivory Coast worsens. France, A Gbagbo Forces bomb

April 05, 2011, 7: 34 pm EDT by Pauline Bax, Olivier Monnier and Baudelaire Mieu

(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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