Anyama, Cote D'Ivoire News

Kneeling family members bent in prayer over two little bodies wrapped in sheets on the grass in the hospital grounds.

Fighters of the former rebel New Forces allied with Ouattara have held the north of this former French colony Children look on as a fighter opposed to Laurent Gbagbo passes in a pick-up truck, in the Anyama neighborhood of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire A on March 12.

Carol Spindel is the author of In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove, a memoir of living in Ivory Coast.

Catholic charity Caritas has announced that its diocesan director in Abidjan, kidnapped by an armed group last week, has been released and is safe.

Supporters of Ivorian presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara listen as Ouattara's prime minister Guillaume Soro addresses a rally in the provincial capital Yamoussoukro, March 31, 2011.