accountable
for human rights violations in Ivory Coast. The UN has accused security forces
loyal to
Mr Gbagbo of killing and abducting people associated with the opposition. It says officials have been unable to investigate allegations of atrocities including at least two mass graves.
In Australia, thousands more people are getting ready to
evacuate
their homes in the northeastern state of Queensland, where some of the worst flooding in half a century has affected more than a million square metres of territory. In the town of Rockhampton, the Mayor Brad Carter described what the emergency services were facing.
"We are going to have a very tough situation
whereby
we may have to use only in disaster, processes of forced evacuations, and this is a very difficult issue. As you can
appreciate
, you can have, for example, some very elderly people that are very reluctant to leave their home, and for their own safety and goodwill, we will have to look at ways and means of relocating them, and we hope that that these are isolated and extreme cases."
Rescue workers in southern Egypt say they've recovered the bodies of 11 children who were on board a bus swept away by floods on Wednesday. The bus was carrying 75 children and teachers returning home after dark from a school outing when it was dragged into a sand-filled trench by the water. More than 60
managed to
escape with minor injuries, but an ambulance driver who'd helped rescue some of the girls was killed.