Over 1,000 people were killed in western Ivory Coast during the five-month crisis that followed a disputed presidential election, the U.N. mission in the country announced Thursday. "At least 1,012 people, among them 103 women and 42 children, were killed" in political clashes and communal fighting, Guillaume N'gefa, the head of the mission's human rights division, told a press conference. Of the total, "at least 505 people were killed" in the town of where a massacre took place at the end of March. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has estimated that "at least 800 people" were killed on March 29 during communal violence in Duekoue, a stronghold loyal to former president Laurent Gbagbo.
