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Forces républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire


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    • FRCI
    • Republican Forces of Côte d'Ivoire

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    • Descriptor

        Armed Forces

    • Associated Locale

        Côte d'Ivoire

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    • found: Alassane Ouattara, c2011:p. 22 (2011, 17 mars, création des FRCI (Forces républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire) par décret pris par Alassane Ouattara)
    • found: Internet, http://allafrica.com, June 22, 2012(The current army - Forces Républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire (FRCI), set up in March by President Alassane Ouattara - will be renamed Forces Armées Nationales de Côte d'Ivoire or (FANCI))
    • found: GlobalSecurity.org, Republic [sic] Forces of Cote d'Ivoire (FRCI), undated (2014?), viewed February 2, 2023(on 17 March 2011, President Ouattara combined the former rebel Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire (FN, FNCI) [not found in OCLC except as brief notes] with cooperating elements of the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) - the former government's security forces - into the Republic[an] Forces of Cote d'Ivoire (FRCI - Force[s] Republicaines de Cote d'Ivoire), the country's new official military; on 9 February 2014, FPI demanded suspension of the 2011 decree unifying the former national armed forces of Côte d'Ivoire and the Forces nouvelles, and requested that FRCI be renamed "National Armed Forces of Côte d'Ivoire"; the FRCI committed killings and other abuses immediately following its creation; the FRCI were formerly known as the Armed Forces of the New Forces (FAFN); the FAFN position was that it would join a new army but not 'return' to the Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire (FANCI))
    • found: European Asylum Support Office. Côte d'Ivoire country focus : country of origin information report, June 2019, viewed online February 2, 2023:page 8 (FRCI, Forces Républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire (Republican Forces of Côte d'Ivoire); since 2016 became FACI) page 7 (FACI, Forces armées de Côte d'Ivoire (Armed Forces of Côte d'Ivoire)) page 26 (the FDS (Forces de défense et de sécurité) were under the command of President Gbagbo until 17 March 2010 [i.e. 2011], when the FRCI were created; FDS includes Forces Armées Nationales de Côte d'Ivoire (National Armed Forces of Côte d'Ivoire) (FANCI), with land, force, air force and navy; the National Gendarmerie, the National Police, the Centre de commandement des opérations de sécurité (5 squadrons in Abidjan), and several special/combined forces units) page 57 (the Forces républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire (FRCI) were created in the midst of the post-electoral crisis of 2010-2011 from the amalgam of the old rebel forces from the north of the country, Forces armées des Forces nouvelles (FAFN), who supported the current President Alassane Ouattara during the crisis, and the army serving former President Laurent Gbagbo (FDS)) page 58 (in November 2016, the Defence Minister announced that the FRCI had been renamed Forces armées de Côte d'Ivoire (Armed Forces of Côte d'Ivoire) (FACI), as already foreseen by the security sector reform (RSS) law; illustration, 'Naming of the Ivorian army': FANCI 1960, FDS 2002, FRCI 2011, FACI 2016) - https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1315951/download
    • found: Assalé, Philippe. Reconstruire les forces de défense et de sécurité en Côte d'Ivoire, 2011:pages 118-119 (on 17 March 2011 Alassane Ouattara signed the order on unification of the Forces armées nationales (FANCI) and the Forces armées des Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) under the name of Forces républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire (FRCI); from the perspective of national reconciliation, we [the author] think that the name FRCI recalls painful memories, hence the need to find for the national armed forces a 'virgin' (blank) name)
    • found: Konadje, Jean-Jacques. Attentat de Bassam, 2022:page 18 (Forces armées de Côte d'Ivoire (FACI); nos forces de défense et de sécurité (FDS) [our forces of defense and security; used as a generic term])
    • found: Wikipedia, French version, viewed February 2, 2023(Forces armées de Côte d'Ivoire (FACI), formerly FANCI; founded 1961; branches: Armée de terre, Marine nationale, Armée de l'aire, Gendarmerie nationale)
    • found: Servir (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire), bulletin no 2, published in 1963:cover (Bulletin des liaison des F.A.N.C.I.) page 3 (Forces armées nationales de Côte d'Ivoire)

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    • 2012-06-22: new
    • 2023-02-04: revised

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