We spoke to surviours – the refugess, injured, orphaned and bereaved – to let them explain the toll that this conflict took on the ordinary families of Ivory Coast. Read their testimonies here.
Ordinary people – the grandparents, children, fathers and sisters of the country –suffered in the ferocious violence that swept Ivory Coast after a brutally contested election.
Weeks after the violence began to subside, many villages still lie empty in the west, with their communities hiding in the bush, displaced in camps or living as refugees in Liberia.
We spoke to survivors – the refugees, injured, orphaned and bereaved – to let them explain the toll that this conflict took on the ordinary families of Ivory Coast.





