UN lifts a 12-year sanction regime on Cote D'Ivoire

The United Nations Security Council has lifted a 12-year sanctions regime on Cote D'Ivoire and renewed for one more cycle the UN Mission to the country. The world's top cocoa producer has been lauded for its political and economic progress since the political uncertainty that began in 2004 culminating in an electoral crisis in 2010 that later saw the arrest of former President Laurent Gbagbo who now faces trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The mission UNOCI of almost 7000 troops and police will be completely withdrawn by June of next year.

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