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Don't forget to pack a bullet-proof vest. And a couple of body guards.
http://www.economist.com/node/21555959From the article..."Violence persists. Fear still stalks the countryside. Few dare venture out at night. Even in daylight drivers speed anxiously through trouble-spots such as Bangolo, a day's drive west of Abidjan. “They shoot out the tyres to stop you,” says an official in nearby Man. “They” refers to ex-combatants with guns who have taken to fleecing travellers, either in ambushes or more brazenly at checkpoints. Lorries pay them $20 for a safe passage of 30km (19 miles).
The culprits come from both sides. In Duékoué people fear the president's supporters, who massacred 800 locals there in early 2011. The priest at a Catholic mission says things got calmer late last year, but have worsened again. Further south, several thousand fighters carry out deadly raids from across the border with Liberia. These are former government soldiers who have become rebels, nicknamed “so-bels” by UN types. More than 4,000 displaced farmers in a nearby camp dare not return home. “People in the villages still get taken away,” says one.
The root of the problem is political. The new rulers do not trust the police force that was trained in the Gbagbo era, so they have disarmed it. A gendarme in Man says, “I have only this,” and throws a few punches. His 40 colleagues have three guns between them; the town's 200 regular police have no guns at all. Nominally the peace is kept by 400 armed soldiers, many of them ex-militiamen. They are the only ones trusted by the new rulers. A policeman in a Heckler & Koch T-shirt says, “If I had a gun, they would arrest me.”
The entire security sector needs overhauling, but so far the government's efforts have been hamfisted. Tens of thousands of former pro-Ouattara rebels were pushed willy-nilly into the regular army, which has grown to somewhere between 40,000 and 110,000 men: nobody knows the exact number. Integration is snared in bureaucracy. Every ministry has a finger in the lucrative security pie."
If you are brave enough to risk the AIDS epidemic for a kidney, that is...
http://www.unicef.org/cotedivoire/hiv_aids.html"With a national prevalence rate estimated at 4.7%, Côte d’Ivoire is the most affected country of West Africa where the HIV/AIDS pandemic rises since 1985, when the first cases were discovered. The impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic is such that it represents the first cause of death for men and the second for women (the first being problems during pregnancy and childbirth).
540,000 Ivorian children are orphaned and vulnerable due to HIV/AIDS, 40,000 currently live with HIV, and over 16,000 are infected each year. Despite this alarming situation, only 4,000 children are under follow-up for HIV/AIDS and 2,000 benefit from Antiretroviral (ARV) therapy."
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