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In a ruling filed Nov. 29, U.S. District Judge Ellen Burns agreed with three of five civil contempt recommendations filed in July by Special Master Richard A. Bieder against the leadership of the city and its police department.
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Independent Online - Cape Town
06 December 2006
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Two killed as police disperse
Abidjan - Ivory Coast police shot and killed two protesters when breaking up demonstrations by opponents of President Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday, witnesses said.
One demonstrator was killed in the eastern town of Agnibilekrou where dozens who accuse Gbagbo of blocking the work of the prime minister had taken to the streets.
They retaliated by torching the local police station, prompting on-duty officers to seek refuge at the home of a traditional chief.
"They tried to resist the police. A shot was fired and the young man died. Afterwards... they laid siege to the police station and burnt it," one police officer, who asked not to be named, told Reuters.
A second man was shot in the leg and bled to death further south in the economic capital Abidjan, opposition youth leader Konate Souleymane told Reuters by telephone, after youths tried to block several roads with tyres and market stall tables.
A resident of the Treichville neighbourhood said youths set fire to a bus and shops had closed. The demonstrators in the city had been dispersed by late morning.
Police used tear gas to disperse other protesters who turned out in several cities and towns of the world's top cocoa producer, split by a 2002/2003 civil war into a rebel-held north and government-controlled south.
The protests were triggered by a dispute between Gbagbo and Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny over their respective powers under a United Nations-backed peace deal for the West African country that envisages long-delayed elections being held within a year.
Gbagbo reinstated three senior civil servants accused of negligence over the dumping of toxic waste in Abidjan in August that killed 10 people.
The three had been suspended during an investigation ordered by Banny, who is backed by UN and foreign mediators.
"(Gbagbo) has restored assassins from the toxic waste affair. Ivorians cannot accept that," opposition youth leader Kouadio Konan Bertin told Reuters.
"We have asked people to take to the streets. For a while the action of the government has been blocked with Gbagbo on one side and Banny on the other."
Two election deadlines in Ivory Coast, a former French colony which was once an oasis of peace and prosperity in West Africa, have already been missed because internationally backed peace efforts were bogged down by political squabbles.
Diplomats say they fear the latest row could further delay the path to elections, which requires progress on sensitive issues like disarmament and an identification process to determine who is eligible to vote.
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