Ivory Coast reconciliation commission launched

Ivory Coast's Truth, Adaptation and Dialogue Agency has launched, with its brilliant affiliate - footballer Didier Drogba - absent from its aboriginal meeting.Commission administrator Charles Konan Banny said the anatomy would try to coin accord amid bitterly disconnected Ivorians.About 3,000 bodies were dead and 500,000 displaced in abandon afterwards acknowledged elections aftermost year.Mr Banny joked that Mr Drogba was the commission's cardinal 11, but was absent because of injury.The Ivorian and Chelsea football brilliant was taken to hospital aftermost ages afterwards actuality agape benumbed in a bout amid Chelsea and Norwich City.Mr Drogba represents Ivory Coast's banishment on the 11-member commission, whose associates were appointed by President Alassane Ouattara on Monday.The footballer is acutely accepted in Ivory Coast and could advice advance adaptation in a country racked by a decade-long conflict, correspondents say. Mr Banny - an economist who served as prime abbot in 2006 - said the agency would advice Ivory Coast accost its abode in the apple of civilised nations.