At least 13 people were killed in clashes in the west Ivory Coast town of Duekoue and at a nearby camp for displaced people, residents said on Friday.

"I have counted at least nine dead in the camp for displaced people, most of them young men," one resident told Agence France Presse by telephone. The number of bodies, which comes on top of four people already reported dead overnight, was confirmed by a local United Nations official and a journalist.

Six people were killed in an overnight attack on a village in Ivory Coast's restive south-west bordering Liberia, a military source said Wednesday.

The source said four attackers were arrested, all of them sympathizers of ousted strongman Laurent Gbagbo, currently in custody at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he faces charges of crimes against humanity.

Lebanese businessman Nadi Rayyes died in the Ivory Coast on Monday after a private jet he was on board crashed due to poor weather conditions as it was flying from a coastal region to the capital Abidjan.

Lebanon’s Ambassador to the Ivory Coast Ali Ajami stated that the Rayyes owns two publications in Abidjan.

Ivorians voted Sunday to elect a new parliament in a poll boycotted by the party of former strongman Laurent Gbagbo, who is awaiting trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity.

The vote comes a year after the aftermath of a divisive presidential election brought the world's top cocoa producer to the brink of civil war and follows a bloodstained campaign that left five people dead in the final week.

Ivory Coast ex-president Laurent Gbagbo made his first appearance Monday before the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity, and accused France of orchestrating his arrest.

Gbagbo, the first former head of state to be brought before the tribunal, faces four counts of crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and inhuman acts, over post-election violence the U.N. said cost about 3,000 lives.

Judges at the world war crimes court Monday gave prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo the green light to investigate atrocities committed after Ivory Coast's disputed elections last year.

The Hague-based International Criminal Court said in a statement that it had "granted the Prosecutor’s request to commence an investigation in Côte d’Ivoire". It said the decision was made last Friday.

Suspected militiamen and Liberian mercenaries attacked a village in southwestern Ivory Coast, killing 14 people, a military source told Agence France Presse on Saturday.

The attack occurred early Friday in the village of Nigre near the Liberian border. The dead included 10 civilians, the source said, adding: "An army soldier died and three of the assailants were killed."

Troops loyal to President Alassane Ouattara last week killed at least eight people in several incidents in Ivory Coast, the U.N. mission in Ivory Coast (ONUCI) announced Thursday.

In incidents in and around Abidjan and the centre-west of the country, "members of the Republican Forces killed at least eight people and wounded several others," the head of ONUCI's human rights division, Guillaume Ngefa, told a news briefing.

Ivory Coast announced a new government Wednesday in another step towards re-establishing itself after a five-month dispute over presidential elections that descended into deadly violence.

The line-up of 36 ministers does not feature the party of Laurent Gbagbo, the former president who refused to step down after November elections, leading to the violence.

State television said renegade warlord Ibrahim "IB" Coulibaly, a two-time coup plotter who began the pro-democracy battle for Abidjan, was killed in fighting Wednesday night with one-time allies turned enemy, Associated Press reported.

He died after his top aide said Coulibaly's troops were waiting for U.N. peacekeepers to disarm them.