Cote D'Ivoire - Complex Emergency
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Regional Team: SWAN
Disaster Declared: 11/24/2006
Brief Description: Access to basic services across Côte d’Ivoire has continually deteriorated since 2002, when an attempted coup d’état divided the country into an opposition-held north and a government-controlled south. The area between the two is known as the Zone of Confidence (ZOC), where U.N. and French peacekeepers are responsible for maintaining peace. Negotiations and various peace agreements have yet to bring a resolution of the ongoing conflict.
In January 2006, pro-government militias in Guiglo in western Côte d’Ivoire orchestrated a wave of anti-U.N. violence, causing several deaths, widespread damage to commercial and non-governmental organization (NGO) property, and the withdrawal of the U.N. forces posted there. Countrywide, business activity and living standards declined and the poverty level reached 41 percent in 2006. A toxic waste dumping scandal in September 2006 further exacerbated tensions in the country. The provision of basic social services to the general population remained very low, especially in the north, west, and ZOC. Poor infrastructure, a declining economic environment, and ongoing insecurity led to increased poverty and acute water and sanitation, health, and food security needs in FY 2006.
On November 24, 2006, U.S. Ambassador Aubrey Hooks redeclared a disaster due to ongoing humanitarian needs in Côte d’Ivoire. Since FY 2003, OFDA has provided more than $6.1 million to address health, nutrition, food security, agriculture, protection, and water and sanitation activities in Côte d’Ivoire.
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