Cote D'Ivoire: UN Human Rights Team Lands as Political Stalemate Continues

A United Nations commission has landed in Cote d'Ivoire to investigate human rights abuses during the first four months of civil war that followed the September 2002 rebellion, a UN official said on Friday. Cote d'Ivoire has been split between a government-controlled south and a rebel-held north ever since the 2002 rebellion, but diplomats have confirmed that the team will be working on both sides of the ceasefire line. More than a year after the official end of fighting, the peace process is deadlocked and disarmament has yet to begin.