Minister of Urban Development and Hygiene Theodore Mel Eg of Cote d'Ivoire

African Integration Minister Theodore Mel Eg said the CDs containing images of recent violence in the West African state and his speech were seized after his bags were searched upon arrival in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Thursday.

Frederic Tongo, a senior official at the integration ministry, said Mel Eg had brought the CDs to present the Ivorian government's position on the violence and fend off possible sanctions by other Francophone community members.

The country's African Integration Minister Theodore Mel Eg said there was a "lack of solidarity" in the region to help end the crisis in the world's top cocoa grower -- split in half since a civil war grew out of a failed coup in 2002.