Ivory Coast's soldiers patrol on the road where UN soldiers were killed last week, following an attack in the southwest, close to the border with Liberia in Para on June 17. Seven Niger troops, 10 civilians and at least one Ivorian soldier were killed in the June 8 attack while patrolling villages south of the small town of Tai, near the Liberian border, the worst attack on ONUCI since its 2004 deployment. The zone has been prone to unrest for the past year, with bloody operations blamed in a recent report by Human Rights Watch on forces loyal to former president Laurent Gbagbo, whom the New York-based non-governmental organization accused of recruiting child soldiers.

A burnt vehicle wherein UN soldiers were killed last week, following an attack in the southwest, in Ivory Coast near the border with Liberia.

The population of Tai collect water distributed by the United Nations peacekeepers in western Ivory Coast near the border with Liberia on June 18. The area has been hit by a series of attacks in recent weeks, killing at least 22 people, including seven United Nations peacekeepers. Ivory Coast has said the attacks were carried out by Liberian mercenaries and pro-former president Laurent Gbagbo Ivorian militias who crossed over from Liberia.

A crane lifts the wreckage of a bus that plunged into the lagoon on August 5 after it veered off from the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Bridge in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, killing at least 35 people. Officials did not immediately release a death toll, but witnesses said the public bus was overcrowded. Officials said the bus smashed into two cars on a bridge stretching over the lagoon in the West African nation's commercial capital, and was then sent hurtling over the edge.

Rescuers collect bodies of victims into a boat recovered from a lagoon in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on August 5.

Rescue workers pull bodies of a victim of a bus accident on August 5.

Ivorian painter Abdoulaye Diarrasouba, 26, who goes by the name Aboudia, sits with his work depicting recent upheaval in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan, on April 19. Heavily influenced by the late U.S. Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, Abdoudia continued working on his grafitti-style paintings as fighting raged outside his studio during recent weeks. He was sometimes forced to stop painting when bullets whistled too closely overhead, but he used his fear and worry to create a colourful and often ghoulish record of the violence that gripped the country since contested elections late last year.

Work by Ivorian painter Abdoulaye Diarrasouba, 26, who goes by the name Aboudia, depicts recent upheaval in Ivory Coast, at his studio in the main city Abidjan on April 19.

Work by Ivorian painter Abdoulaye Diarrasouba, 26, who goes by the name Aboudia, depicting recent upheaval in Ivory Coast sits at his studio in the main city Abidjan on April 19.

Work by Ivorian painter Abdoulaye Diarrasouba, 26, who goes by the name Aboudia, begs for help from United Nations peacekeepers during recent upheaval in Ivory Coast, at his studio in the main city Abidjan on April 19.

Work by Ivorian painter Abdoulaye Diarrasouba, 26, who goes by the name Aboudia, depicts recent upheaval in Ivory Coast, at his studio in the main city Abidjan on April 19.

Republican forces soldiers walk up stairs at the presidential palace in central Abidjan, Ivory Coast, April 14, 2011. More than a week of heavy fighting turned the city once known as the Paris of West Africa into one of deprivation, fear and death. The urban warfare culminated in the arrest on Monday of strongman Laurent Gbagbo. Now President Alassane Ouattara's first order of business is to get Abidjan functioning again.

Republican forces soldiers walk past boxes of weapons and ammunition found stored in a basement of the presidential palace in central Abidjan, Ivory Coast, April 14, 2011.

Laurent Gbagbo, surrounded by soldiers loyal to Alassane Ouattara, appears in an image from Ivorian television shortly after his capture on Monday, April 11. Troops loyal to Ivory Coast leader Alassane Ouattara captured former strongman Laurent Gbagbo and his wife Simone and brought them to their base, Ouattara's spokeswoman said. The former first couple was taken to Abidjan's Golf Hotel, where Ouattara's camp is based

France's Licorne "Unicorn" forces prepare for a military operation in southern Ivory Coast April 11, 2011. U.N. and French helicopters attacked forces loyal to Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo, damaging the presidential residence in Abidjan and destroying heavy weapons after U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon ordered them silenced. Gbagbo refused to step down after his rival Alassane Ouattara won last November's presidential election, according to results certified by the United Nations, reigniting a civil war that has claimed more than a thousand lives and uprooted a million people.

Backers of Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo seized by supporters of the country's internationally recognized leader Alassane Ouattara are held on April 5 at the Golf Hotel, Ouattara's headquarters in Abidjan.

Backers of Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo seized by supporters of the country's internationally recognized leader Alassane Ouattara are led on a rope on April 5 at the Golf Hotel, Ouattara's headquarters in Abidjan.

A soldier loyal to Alassane Ouattara moves along a road as fighting flares across Abidjan on April 4. Forces loyal to Ouattara streamed into the city from the north on Monday.

Explosions are seen at a camp of soldiers loyal to Laurent Gbagbo during an attack by U.N. and French armed forces in Treichville in Abidjan on April 4.

In this photo taken on Sunday, April 3, and made available on April 5, a UN peacekeeper from Jordan looks up as he and others return fire on troops supporting Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo during a patrol in the streets of Abidjan.

Forces loyal to Ivorian presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara gather outside the capital Abidjan, April 3. Fighters loyal to Ivory Coast presidential rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Ouattara held onto positions around the main city Abidjan on Sunday, a day that saw less fighting than the previous three. Soldiers of Ivory Coast's rival leaders battled for the presidential palace, military bases and state TV in the main city Abidjan on Saturday, in a conflict becoming so brutal that it killed 800 people in one town alone. Advancing soldiers backing Alassane Ouattara, who U.N.-certified results show won a Nov. 28 presidential election, met stiff resistance from fighters remaining loyal to incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, who has refused to step down.

A fighter loyal to Ivorian presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara displays traditional hunters' charms as forces gather outside the capital Abidjan, April 3.

A wounded man recieves medical care at a hospital in Abidjan's Treichville neighbourhood on Tuesday, March 8.. At least three men and a woman were the latest victims of an increasingly bloody post-electoral crisis, which the UN fears could become a full-blown civil war.

Women's organizer Betty Nguessan, center, grieves during a march 'of mourning' for all the victims of post-election violence, in the Treichville neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast Tuesday, March 8. Later in the day, soldiers backing Ivory Coast's rogue leader opened fire on civilians again, killing at least four people in Treichville hours after hundreds took to the streets to protest the deaths of seven women gunned down at a march last week.

A doctor stanches bleeding from a head wound as he treats people on the corridor floor of the health clinic.

Aladji Diawara is comforted by a friend and a relative, as he grieves for his brother Mohamed, 30, who died from gunshot wounds after security forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo opened fire on civilians.

A nurse prepares to give an IV to a man shot in the arm when security forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo opened fire on civilians, at a health clinic, in the Treichville neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast Tuesday.

A man shot in the leg when security forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo opened fire on civilians receives treatment at a health clinic, in the Treichville neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast Tuesday, Tuesday. Soldiers backing Ivory Coast's rogue leader opened fire on civilians again Tuesday, killing at least four people hours after hundreds took to the streets to protest the deaths of seven women gunned down at a march last week.