Cote d’Ivoire Delay in key bid to hand out ID papers
Published: 14/Jul/2006
Source: IRIN
ABIDJAN, 14 July 2006 (IRIN) –
President Laurent Gbagbo’s party is threatening a politically sensitive registration scheme to determine who has the right to Ivorian citizenship – an issue that helped spark the almost four-year-old civil war that has divided the country. Determining who is Ivorian is a key step in the implementation of a UN peace plan to end the war and reunify a country where some 750,000 people have been displaced and three million are receiving humanitarian assistance.
Link to IRIN website: http://www.irinnews.org/news/2006/07/14/delay-key-bid-hand-out-id-papers-ahead-poll