HIGHLIGHTS
• On 29 March, already, the Government had filed a money laundering complaint against Laurent and Simone Gbagbo and other members of the former regime in Switzerland.
• On 5 May the Forces Républicaines de Côte d’Ivoire gained control over the Locodjro Naval Base in Yopougon, the last strategic points held by the pro-Gbagbo militias.
• On 6 May Alassane Dramane Ouattara was sworn in as President of Côte d’Ivoire.
• On 7 May, Laurent Gbagbo was heard for the first time by the courts, in the absence of his French lawyers who were reportedly turned back at Abidjan airport for lack of appropriate visas. The prosecutor of Abidjan, Koffi Kouadio Simplice, questioned Simone Gbagbo who is under house arrest.
• On 8 May Côte d’Ivoire resumed cocoa exports.
• UNOCI is working with the gendarmes to locate and destroy unexploded ordinances (UXOs) found in schools, homes, the central business district and the Presidential Palace, among other sites reported.
• The country received Euro 44 million in financial support from the European Union to revive its agriculture and modernize its justice system.