France has recently made headlines for its involvement in Ivory Coast. Involvement some have accepted as correct because of its apparent motivation. France, together with the United Nations (UN), argued that intervention in Ivory Coast was based on the UN and international community’s mandate to maintain international peace and...
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Again we are seeing civilians being held ransom by the ego-fuelled conflicts of their leaders. In the last four months, what could have been a new dawn for the Ivoirians has turned into a familiar nightmare of a civil war. Currently Ouattara’s forces have arrested Gbagbo who is now under house arrest. The question is whether this...
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Some time ago, I was rather optimistic at the international community’s responsiveness to the Côte D’Ivoire situation: the relative unanimity of support for Ouattara, the invested presence of regional, continental and international authorities and the rather decisive reaction from West African nations, indicating military...
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The post-election crisis in Cote D’Ivoire has been met with a fairly surprising strength and consistency of response from the International Community calling for Laurent Gbagbo to step down to Allasaine Ouattara. While we can debate the efficacy of diplomatic efforts and sanctions regimes, the rather unambiguous cry (exceptions...
read moreCote d’Ivoire’s post electoral crisis has been a dramatic moving picture, with events in the past three weeks threatening to undo the economic and political progress that has been made. After a decade of civil war, strife and promises of democracy Cote d’Ivoire (CDI) finally held presidential elections on the 31 October. This...
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