Minister of Solidarity and War Victims Louis Andre Dakoury-tabley of Cote d'Ivoire

Dakoury-Tabley said in a speech to the closing session of the forum, that the meeting of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo with six other West African heads of state in the Ghanaian capital Accra on November 11 had been a failure, because Gbagbo had refused to make any of the concessions that the other leaders had demanded of him.

On November 8, the body of medical doctor Benoit Dakoury-Tabley was found after he had been kidnaped the previous day; Dakoury-Tabley was the brother of Louis Dakoury-Tabley, one of the political leaders of the rebel Patriotic Movement of Cote d'Ivoire (MPCI.

Louis Dakoury-Tabley was a ranking official in the ruling Ivoirian Popular Front (FPI) party.