Côte d’Ivoire
7 December 2010
The head of UNOCI Choi Young-jin briefed the Council on the political and security situation in Côte d’Ivoire.
6 December 2010
UNHCR indicated that it had registered about 22,000 Ivorian refugees who had entered Liberia in the wake of the conflict.
5 December 2010
Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, arrived in Côte d’Ivoire on an AU mediation mission.
4 December 2010
Gbagbo was sworn in for another term in office at the presidential palace. However Ouattara was also subsequently sworn in as president at a hotel in Abidjan. Ouattara appointed Guillaume Soro, who had a few hours earlier resigned as prime minister in Gbagbo’s government, as prime minister.
3 December 2010
The head of UNOCI Choi Young-jin certified the results of the second round of elections announced by the electoral commission, which recognised Alassane Ouattara as the winner, to be valid.
3 December 2010
The Constitutional Court declared incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo as winner of the presidential run-off election.
