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| Africa: East |
| Ivorian peace deal falters |
| 2003-09-23 |
| Ivory Coast’s former rebels are suspending their participation in a power-sharing government formed to end the civil war. They also announced after talks in the central city of Bouake, which remains under their control, that they would suspend their participation in a disarmament programme. "Since we didn’t get our fair share, we’ll need those guns." The rebels joined the power-sharing government in April under a peace deal brokered by former colonial power France. April - September, nearly a African record peace. The rebels accuse President Laurent Gbagbo of stalling on the peace process. Hundreds were killed in the initial uprising one year ago and thousands more died in the fighting and ethnic violence which followed. The conflict split the country into a mostly Christian and animist, government-held south, and a mainly Muslim, rebel-controlled north. Tap, tap...nope. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 The Ivory Coast, the Congo and Haiti are all still disasters. Liberians rebels are using forced labor. Who would have thought that Rawanda would become the model for sucessful nation building. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-9-23 2:16:41 PM |
| #1 Another Phewrench disaster. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-9-23 11:27:13 AM |