1611: Khodor, in Abidjan, has just told the BBC that he "can hear gunfire and there are looters on the streets". He adds: "The situation is really really dangerous. There are no police and no army on the streets. We are stuck in our building. There are all nationalities here, I'm from Lebanon. We have had to pay looters to stay away from our building, they were going to come and burn it down, so we paid them to leave us alone. We have no food or water. I'm quite calm now, but there are people in tears, we have no idea what will happen or even what is going on, we are getting updates from the internet but there is no news elsewhere. The UN should be protecting civilians but where are they, we feel that we have been abandoned. We have tried calling the embassy but no one answers."
Laurent Gbagbo has reportedly been detained by French elite forces. 
Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president of Ivory Coast, is being taken to a hotel in the capital Abidjan to meet with internationally recognised leader Alassane Ouattara after the beseiged ruler was detained by forces loyal to the opposition.

The permanent representative of Ivory Coast to the United Nations in New York, , said Gbagbo, who he described as "alive and well", had been captured by opposition forces in a raid on his presidential palace in Abidjan and will stand trial. The prime minister in Ouattara's prospective government has called on Gbagbo loyalists to join the opposition this afternoon, reports indicate.

Bamba confirmed forces loyal to Ouattara had captured Gbagbo, rather than French or U.N. forces as had initially been reported. "The nightmare is over for the people of Ivory Coast, there is much celebration," Bamba said. "He is now being held in a safe place for the next steps to put him on trial." New video footage of Gbagbo has emerged, purportedly showing him detained in a hotel in Abidjan where Ouattara is staying. 

Fighting  in the African state since a disputed election in November last year. Supporters of Ouattara claim he won the poll and is the rightful president, but Gbagbo has refused to stand down.