"He has returned to the Abidjan Golf Hotel," said a member of Ouattara's entourage, referring to the hotel where the leader had been holed up under United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society protection since being declared the winner of the November 28 presidential runoff election.
Ouattara's return came a day after troops loyal to his rival
Laurent Gbagbo... President of Ivory Coast since 2000. Gbagbo lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and Laurent has refused to leave despite the international community's hemming, hawing, and broad hints...
stormed into Abidjan's Abobo district with tanks, mortars and helicopters to dislodge Ouattara supporters. An AFP journalist and a witness counted eight bodies in the streets of the pro-Ouattara Abobo district, which was rocked by heavy shelling Saturday.
Ouattara aides slammed the offensive as "blind murder". The bodies were riddled with bullets and partially undressed. They were in the Plateau Dokui area of the suburb, near a road leading to the zoo. A resident said he had seen another four bodies in southern Abobo in Sodeci.