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Original Post Date: 2011-01-04 Time: 16:00:04 Posted By: News Poster
By Honore Koua
Abidjan – As embattled Cote d’Ivoire leader Laurent Gbagbo digs in his heels, there is intensified talk fuelled by private and state-owned media that the country could pull out of the CFA franc zone and set up its own currency.
A specimen of the currency is reportedly circulating on the internet under the French initials MIR, which stands for the “Ivorian currency of the resistance.”
The issue comes up following the decision by the central bank of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) to block the Gbabgo government from accessing Ivorian state funds.
L’Inter, a private newspaper, reported in its Wednesday edition that the pressure for “the creation of a currency for Ivorian sovereignty” is spreading.
The newspaper printed a specimen of the MIR which it said was already circulating on the Internet.
On Monday, the state-owned daily Fraternité Matin carried an analysis entitled “Monetary sovereignty – Is Cote d’Ivoire ready?”
Francophone bloc
The article underlined the fact that West African countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone have their own currency and some of the currencies are stronger than the CFA franc.
Cote d’Ivoire shares the CFA currency with seven other Francophone countries in West Africa. The currency is pegged for stability on the Euro.
On Sunday, Abidjan-based economist Saraka Kouamé Michel was the guest of a program on state television where he argued how “useful” it was for the country to leave the Francophone monetary bloc. He also said there is a short-term option of one year for the currency to be available.
In the past, the most fervent advocate of an Ivorian currency has been the president of the Ivorian Parliament, Mamadou Koulibaly, who is an economist and a member of Gbagbo’s party.
Meanwhile, about hundred people assaulted Tuesday a convoy of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Côte d’Ivoire, leaving one soldier wounded and a vehicle burnt.
“The attack happened in the Yopougon neighbourhood of Abidjan when the convoy carrying 22 soldiers of the UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) was on its way from the country’s interior,” said the mission in the statement.
Youth wing
Witnesses say young people, most of them residents of the area, blocked the three-vehicle convoy. Some of them insulted the peacekeepers telling them to leave the country; others threw water plastic bags at them.
The crowd finally slashed one soldier with a machete and set one of the vehicles on fire.
Calm was restored after the intervention of the defence and security forces chief of staff, General Philippe Mangou, UNOCI added in the statement.
On December 18 incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo demanded the UN mission and French troops supporting it to leave the country “immediately”.
Since then youth leaders supporting Gbagbo have been holding meetings to ask the peacekeepers to quit. The president of the youth wing of Gbagbo’s party Konaté Navigué last week told students gathered in a campus in Abidjan not to allow peacekeepers to buy oil at gas stations or goods in supermarkets.
The chief of the pro-Gbagbo group Young Patriots, Charles Blé Goudé, has been touring Abidjan neighborhoods to “mobilise” the youth for a “final assault”, presumably at the peacekeepers.
Goudé, who was recently named Youth and Employment minister in Gbagbo’s cabinet, has been calling on the UNOCI to leave the country “kindly”.
Street militias
The Young Patriots chief is facing UN sanctions since 2006 for “repeated public statements advocating violence against United Nations installations and personnel, and against foreigners.”
He is also cited in “directing of and participating in acts of violence by street militias”.
On Tuesday Goudé postponed a public rally planned today in Abidjan. He said on state television that he wanted to “give a chance” to the ongoing “mediation” and thwart those he claimed were “planning civil war”.
There were fears of intensified clashes after youth supporters of the rival claimant to the presidency, Alassane Ouattara, announced they would also have a gathering the same day at the same location.
On Tuesday, heads of states of Benin, Cape Verde and Sierra Leone met twice with Gbagbo. They were on a mission on behalf of West African body ECOWAS to persuade the isolated leader to quit peacefully or face military force.
The three presidents also met with Ouattara, whom the intenational community recognizes as the rightful president.
Transport sector
In another development a general strike called by pro-Ouattara parties had more success in Abidjan than an earlier one.
Most businesses in the capital city were closed and workers stayed at home after many transporters failed to go to work.
Touré Adama, the head of the biggest union in the transport sector, claimed at the end of the day that the strike was “at 80 percent” effective in Abidjan and the rest of the country.
Reports say that in some neighbourhoods transporters were prevented from working by angry youths who broke windows of the taxes and ordered passengers out.
The coalition of political parties backing Ouattara urged Sunday that Ivorians stop “all their activities from Monday 27 December” until incumbent Gbagbo leaves office.
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Original date published: 29 December 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201101030202.html?viewall=1