The Beirut-born Hassoun blamed his actions in part on childhood trauma living in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
He was speaking from Abidjan, the country's economic capital, after an ICRC team visited rebel-held territory.
Abidjan is becoming the business centre of Francophone West Africa, so western countries want to keep it stable.
Now that the outgoing leader seems to be holed up in Abidjan, would such an offer still stand?
While the rest of the world condemned the coup, the people of Abidjan took to the streets to celebrate.
The Ivorian, son of a footballing father, had followed his brother Bonaventure there from the Asec Academy in Abidjan.
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But unconfirmed details of the deal caused rioting in Abidjan, especially against the French, who had godfathered the agreement.
The dead in Abidjan included 26 children, 28 women and six men, Youth Minister Alain Lobognon said via Twitter.
Fullone has already coached such high profile African teams as Asec Abidjan of Ivory Coast, Raja Casablanca and Wydad Casablanca.
On March 3rd Mr Gbagbo's men gunned down seven unarmed women in Abidjan, who had been peacefully protesting against him.
Muwonge claims that police at Abidjan Airport had arrested him because he had no visa for Burkina Faso in his passport.
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In one Abidjan slum, all that remains of the shacks where 2, 500 immigrants once lived is a swathe of grassy wasteland.
On Monday, hundreds of wooden shacks in a wealthy Abidjan suburb were torched by troops, uprooting scores of poor immigrant workers.
Thursday, the regional group, Economic Community of West African States, met in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, to discuss military intervention in Mali.
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Sunday's match, won 5-0 by Ivory Coast, had not kicked off when a wall collapsed at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny stadium in Abidjan.
He said ECOWAS leaders will meet again this week in his capital, Abidjan, to discuss the possible activation of troops from member states.
We have seen hard choices made -- from Naypyidaw to Cairo to Abidjan -- to put more power in the hands of citizens.
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Enyimba are joined in the final four by Tunisia's Etoile Sahel, who topped Group A despite their 3-2 defeat by Africa Sports in Abidjan.
He said ECOWAS leaders will meet again this week in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan to discuss the possible activation of troops from member states.
Cameroon - who had secured leadership of Group Three after beating Ivory Coast 3-2 in Abidjan - needed to beat Egypt to secure qualification for Germany 2006.
More than 400, 000 Ivorians have fled their homes, three-quarters of them from Abidjan, the country's once shinily prosperous commercial capital, most of them in the past few weeks.
Armed mobs roam Abidjan, the commercial capital, looting white-owned property.
It acted heroically when the rebels arose in September 2002, blocking their advance on Abidjan, and brokering a deal to allay the concerns of the marginalised northerners they represent.
On Saturday the prime minister and leader of Mali's transitional government, Cheick Modibo Diarra, arrived in Abidjan for talks with ECOWAS head Alassane Ouattara, the president of Ivory Coast.
The former rebel army, now calling themselves the Republican Forces, swept down from their base in the north, arriving in Abidjan on March 31st after meeting little resistance on the way.
In Group Five, Ivory Coast ended their campaign unbeaten after they cruised to a 3-0 victory over Guinea in Abidjan thanks to two goals from Gervinho and one from Siaka Tiene.
Abidjan errupted in two rounds of violence, the first on 24 October after former military leader General Robert Guei tried to stop the counting of votes in the presidential election he had called.
The bodies exhumed were believed to be those four men aged 17 to 35 who were killed while defending the mosque against militants allied with Mr Gbagbo, reports the BBC's Tamasin Ford from Abidjan.
The Economic Community of West African States plans to hold an emergency meeting in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to prepare to send troops to Mali to help government forces, a spokesman for the organization said.
The BBC's John James at the meeting in Abidjan says no timescale was set for the deployment to Mali, because the leaders were waiting for the Malian government to draw up details of their collaboration.
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