posted on Apr, 5 2011 @ 12:59 PM
After news saying that ex IC predident Gbagbo was hidden in a bunker, latest just confirmed Gbagbo yielding.
Reuters reporting that negotiations underway concern
security conditions for Gbagbo and relatives following a surrender
Besieged Gbagbo 'in basement' of residence:
Ivory Coast's defiant President Laurent Gbagbo is sheltering with his family in the basement bunker of his residence in the main city, Abidjan.
BBC
Original source from UN internal source and Reuters.
Rouhly translation from Reuters French paper:
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo went and asked for the UN protection, according to a UN internal document obtained by
Reuters
(...) The President Gbagbo has also made his resignation and asked for the protection of UNOCI, "the UN operation in Ivory Coast, said the document
addressed to UN staff in country .
Shortly before, four tanks and several armored troop carriers of the French army, followed by a vehicle of the Red Cross flying a white flag, crossed
the bridges connecting the north and south of Abidjan, bridges up 'then controlled by those loyal to Gbagbo.
Laurent Gbagbo, who would have taken refuge in the bunker of his residence in the north of the city, negotiating the terms of his departure from
power, following the offensive by troops of his rival Alassane Ouattara backed by helicopters Nations UN and French Licorne force.
John Mark, Guy Kerivel for the French service
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