2010 in Ivory Coast
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The following lists events that happened during 2010 in Ivory Coast.
Events
October
- October 31 - Voters in Ivory Coast go to the polls for the long delayed presidential election.[1]
November
- November 6 - The Ivory Coast presidential election will go to a second round with President Laurent Gbagbo facing opposition leader Alassane Ouattara.[2]
- November 10 - Ivory Coast defers the second round of voting for the Ivory presidential election to November 28.[3]
- November 27 - Second Ivorian Civil War
- November 28 - Voters in Ivory Coast go to the polls for the second round of the Ivorian presidential election with violent clashes having occurred between rival supporters.[5]
December
- December 2 - Ivory Coast's election commission in Côte d'Ivoire declares Alassane Ouattara the winner of the Ivorian presidential election but the Constitutional Council declares the announcement invalid as it missed the deadline to announce the results.[6]
- December 3 - Incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo is ruled as the election winner in Côte d'Ivoire after the constitutional court overturns provisional results which favoured opposition candidate, former prime minister Alassane Ouattara.[7]
- December 4 - Ivorian presidential election, 2010
- December 5 - Former South African President Thabo Mbeki begins mediation efforts in Ivory Coast following the disputed presidential election.[10]
- December 7 - Côte d'Ivoire is expelled from the Economic Community of West African States.[11]
- December 8 - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf warns former rebel fighters not to get involved in the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire.[12]
- December 9 - The African Union suspends Côte d'Ivoire following the disputed presidential election.[13]
- December 11 - Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is to seek talks with rival presidential candidate Alassane Ouattara to end the crisis in the country. The head of the Economic Community of West African States James Victor Gbeho rejects the idea of power-sharing talks.[14]
- December 15 - An alliance of opposition parties that endorse the presidency of Alassane Ouattara in Ivory Coast call for mass protests, following the presidential election.[15]
- December 16 - Opposition protesters in Ivory Coast attempt to seize the state television station in central Abidjan, which is surrounded by the army. At least fifteen people have died in clashes.[16]
- December 18 - Ivory Coast crisis
- December 19 - Ivory Coast crisis
- December 22 - The World Bank stops financing Côte d'Ivoire.[21]
- December 23 - The United Nations says 173 people have been killed during post-election violence in Ivory Coast.[22]
- December 24 - Ivory Coast crisis
- The United Nations General Assembly unanimously approves opposition candidate Alassane Ouattara as President of Côte d'Ivoire.[23]
- State television in Côte d'Ivoire goes off the air outside the capital Abidjan amid a political crisis. The Economic Community of West African States threatens to remove incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo by "legitimate force".[23]
- December 25 - Approximately 14,000 people have fled Côte d'Ivoire and headed to Liberia due to the recent presidential election dispute.[24]
- December 26 - Laurent Gbagbo threatens to treat United Nations peacekeepers of the UNOCI mission as rebels if they do not follow orders and leave.[24]
- December 27 - Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner of the presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire, calls for a general strike to force Laurent Gbagbo, who is refusing to cede power, to step down.[25]
- December 28 - The leaders of Benin, Cape Verde and Sierra Leone arrive in Côte d'Ivoire to urge Laurent Gbagbo to resign as President.[26]
- December 30 - Côte d'Ivoire's ambassador to the United Nations, Youssoufou Bamba, says the country is on the "brink of genocide".[27]
References
- ↑ "Ivory Coast holds reconciliation poll at last". 30 October 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Ivory Coast constitutional council confirms poll result". 6 November 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Ivory Coast postpones presidential runoff vote". 10 November 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Ivory Coast clashes claim three lives ahead of vote". 27 November 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- 1 2 "Gbagbo decrees election curfew". 27 November 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Cote d'Ivoire misses poll deadline". 2 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Ivorian court reverses poll result". 4 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "World leaders back Ouattara as Ivory Coast poll winner". 4 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Ivory Coast crisis as presidential rivals both sworn in". 4 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Mbeki undertakes Ivorian mediation". 6 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Cote d'Ivoire expelled from Ecowas". 7 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Ivory Coast crisis: Liberia warlords told not to meddle". 8 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "African Union suspends Ivory Coast over disputed poll". 9 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Gbagbo hints at Cote d'Ivoire talks". 11 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Côte d'Ivoire' opposition calls for mass protest". 15 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Ivory Coast: Ouattara supporters in deadly clashes". 17 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Kenya warns Cote d'Ivoire leader". 18 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Gbagbo orders peacekeepers to leave Ivory Coast". 18 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "UN troops to stay in Cote d'Ivoire". 19 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "'Hundreds abducted' in Ivory Coast election unrest - UN". 19 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Cote d'Ivoire standoff deepens". 23 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Ivory Coast clashes kill 173, says UN". 23 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- 1 2 "Ivory Coast state TV goes off air outside Abidjan". 24 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- 1 2 "Thousands flee Ivory Coast for Liberia amid poll crisis". 26 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Ivory Coast: General strike called to pressure Gbagbo". 27 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "African leaders meet with Gbagbo to deal with Ivory Coast crisis". 29 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ "Ivory Coast on brink of "genocide": envoy to UN". 30 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
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