Five Ivory Coast generals formerly aligned with deposed president Laurent Gbagbo have pledged their loyalty to the country’s new leader, Alassane Ouattara. The generals fought for Gbagbo up until the final moments of his capture by French and Ivorian forces on Monday. Ouattara has called for an Ivorian investigation into Gbagbo and those closest to him and urged his supporters to refrain from retaliatory violence. Ouattara has also announced his intent to set up a truth and reconciliation commission. At the United Nations, Ravina Shamdasani of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said hundreds had been killed in recent fighting.

Ravina Shamdasani: “Our team has so far established that 536 people were killed in the west of the country — in Duekoue, Guiglo, Blolequin and Bangolo — in the past few weeks, but the number could very well be much higher than that.”