President Laurent Gbagbo of C?te d'Ivoire speaks at a press conference at the headquarters of his party in Abidjan on November 9, 2010. ReutersForces try to install of C?te d'Ivoire democratically elected leader before presidential home Tuesday and a top diplomat said fighters were trying to coax the entrenched strongman of a bunker.
The diplomat also said that the more friend and close as Laurent Gbagbo Adviser long had abandoned him, leaving the bunker to take refuge in the House of the French Ambassador.
Forces to overthrow Gbagbo more than four months after losing the presidential election had managed to take almost any last week campaign.
But they fail once they reached greatest city of the country, where the Presidential Palace and residence are located.
Monday, the United Nations forces and the French opened fire with attack helicopters on the arsenal of Gbagbo, as columns of infantry, allied to his challenger finally pierced the city limit.
Gbagbo Adviser Alcide Djédjé, co-founded the political party of Gbagbo and accompanies him to prison for decades, have found refuge Tuesday, at the residence of the Ambassador of France confirmed the top diplomat. Djédjé most recently served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Gbagbo.
Doctors without borders has launched an urgent appeal Monday evening for all the warring factions to allow people to reach medical care.
In a statement, the organization said that a team of its doctors had trapped since Thursday "due to extremely hazardous conditions" in hospital only still works in half north of the city, which includes the home of Gbagbo. "."
They dealt with 30 to 40 people injured on a daily basis, going to the hospital by cart or other means, but fire and looting have prevented helping others.
"We get phone calls asking us to come pick up the wounded and patients, but it is impossible to move, said Dr. Sal - ha Issoufou, head of the mission of physicians to Abidjan."
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