G lossary of Acronyms

AIDS

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

AU

African Union

BAE

Brigade Anti-meute (Anti-Riot Brigade)

CECOS

Centre de commandement des oprations de scurit (Security Operations Command Center)

CEDAW

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

ECOWAS

Economic Community of West African States

FAFN

Forces Armes des Forces Nouvelles (Armed Forces of the New Forces)

FANCI

Forces Armes Nationales de Cote d'Ivoire (National Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire)

FDS

Forces de Dfense et de Scurit (Defense and Security Forces)

FESCI

Fdration estudiantine et scolaire de Cote d'Ivoire (Federation of students and schools in Cote d'Ivoire)

FN

Forces Nouvelles (New Forces), rebaptized as the FDS-FN, or Forces de Dfense et de Scurit des Forces Nouvelles (Defense and Security Force of the New Forces) in 2006

FPI

Front populaire ivoirien (Popular Ivorian Front)

HIV

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

ICC

International Criminal Court

IDP

Internally displaced person

JP

Jeunes patriotes (Young Patriots, also known as the "Congrs panafricain des jeunes patriotes" or COJEP, namely the Panafrican Congress of Young Patriots)

LIMA

Group of armed Liberians fighting with pro-government forces in Cote d'Ivoire, whose name/acronym remains a mystery

MILOCI

Mouvement ivoirien pour la libration de l'ouest de la Cote d'Ivoire (Ivorian Movement for the Liberation of Western Cote d'Ivoire)

MJP

Mouvement pour la justice et la paix (Movement for Justice and Peace)

MPCI

Mouvement patriotique de Cote d'Ivoire (Patriotic Movement of Cote d'Ivoire)

MPIGO

Mouvement populaire ivoirien pour le grand ouest (Ivorian Popular Movement for the Great West)

MSF

Mdecins sans frontires (Doctors without Borders)

NGO

Non-Governmental Organization

ONUCI

Opration des Nations Unies en Cote d'Ivoire (United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire)

PDCI

Parti dmocratique de la Cote d'Ivoire (Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire)

RDR

Rassemblement des rpublicains (Rally of Republicans)

STI

Sexually Transmitted Infection

UN

United Nations