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2011-01-02 Africa Subsaharan

Ouattara ultimatum runs out as Ivory Coast's Gbagbo defiant

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Posted by Fred 2011-01-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Step down Gbagbo. Answer this call.

Posted by newc 2011-01-02 01:25|| 2011-01-02 01:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Obviously jus another Dictator.
One man, One Vote, One time.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-01-02 11:33|| 2011-01-02 11:33|| Front Page Top

#3 An ARCLIGHT strike on the Presidential Palace would be enough to get him to step down, I'd bet. That is, if there are enough pieces of him left to find. It's hard to have a democracy in a culture that still believes the strongest man should rule.

Posted by Old Patriot 2011-01-02 14:23|| 2011-01-02 14:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Just for your info - Alassane Ouattare is Muslim, a stranger in Ivory Coast: both parents born in muslim Burkina Faso and him with unknown or dubious place of birth. Only a person born in Ivory Coast of Ivorian parents can be a president of the country - because of that twice the above was banned from presidential elections, in 2000 and 2005. That's first.
And second: like it or not the 2010 elections were rigged. The country is devided in two: muslim north under total control of muslim insurgents, supported by northern, muslim neighbours had to and voted en masse for their Ouattara. Obviously the Christian south mostly voted for Christian Gbagbo.
Solution: split the country in two - what's good for Sudanese goose will be good for Ivorian gander...

Posted by vendaval 2011-01-02 15:22|| 2011-01-02 15:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Interesting background. Thank you, vendaval, and welcome!

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-02 15:29|| 2011-01-02 15:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Just for your info - Alassane Ouattare is Muslim

That's explains the international hue & cry. In particular, African Union's (highly atypical) eagerness to defend democracy (anybody knows of any non "president for life" in AU?).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-01-02 16:48|| 2011-01-02 16:48|| Front Page Top

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