He's just (an hour ago) contacted his family (we bought them a mobile phone) and a tank rolled past their family courtyard, shooting indiscriminately at anyone out on the street. All his folks are so far safe, but daren't go out of course, not even to the mosque. He's in tears, desperately worried. His parents are very old and frail, and most of his nine siblings still live at home. There are about sixty persons in the yard, cousins, uncles, aunts, etc etc, living in little huts dotted around, and three septic toilets between them. No-one can come to syphon them out. I'm praying cholera and typhoid don't break out, as both these diseases are endemic there. If only Gbagbo would concede and let the country get back to normal. This could go on for some time, all we can do is pray.