300,000 still displaced in Ivory Coast

(CNN) -- More than 300,000 people are still displaced from their homes in Ivory Coast two months after a political crisis was settled in the West African nation, the United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday.

Ongoing violence has prevented their return home.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said most of the displaced are in camps or living with host families mostly in the western part of the country.

Ivory Coast endured months of bloodshed after a disputed November election that pitted the forces of Alassane Ouattara against those of Laurent Gbagbo, who refused to cede power.

Gbagbo was captured in April, and Ouattara was sworn in several weeks later. Both sides have been accused of atrocities.

The head of the Human Rights Division of the U.N. Mission in Ivory Coast has called for immediate and impartial investigations into reports of attacks by armed forces loyal to Ouattara against people in areas known to support Gbagbo.

The U.N. refugee agency said communal tensions are still high in the southwestern Sassandra region, where more than 280 civilians were killed in early May by mercenaries on the run from Abidjan, the nation's metropolitan center.

Comment: This type of political crisis is very bad, because there can be a war or some disagrement with the people that follows each candidate, so I think that travelling to another country to stay safe is a very good option.