Africa Today-Ivory Coast Crisis: who is pulling the strings?-01-11-2011-(Part1)

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It is Africa's most pressing International crisis, a President deemed to have lost an election but who refuses to stand down. What makes the case of Laurent Gbagbo different? Is it the apparent willingness of some African countries to use force to drive him out, action supported by Britain and the USA? There have been threats of civil war and possible reprisals on people from other African countries. So should African leaders broker a Kenya or Zimbabwe style power sharing deal between Mr. Gbagbo and his rival Alassane Ouattara? Do they insist on another election? Or do they carry out their threats to invade and without leave them looking like puppets of Europe and America? These are some big questions to ask for this week's Africa Today.

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[Beesahili]

@African Patriot,UN created without AfricanStates,doesn't mean Anything to Africans.All interventions in African are led by Africans with a little help from 3rd world Asian countries,so what a heck does the UN wants in Africa!Where was the UN when Rwanda needed help!What has the developed world(self-acclaimed)done in DR Congo!Solution:Africans should break away from UN! AU should be redefined!Arabs in N.Africa should decide&give their cooperative answer or be excluded!OnlyAfrican decision holds!

[drluve12355]

So the fraud was more than 500thousand votes to mr.Ouattara.

[drluve12355]

to 81% at Ouattaras headquarters. This means if you do the math, 70% out of 5.7million inrolled is about 4 million voters. If you look at the results the president of the elecoral comite gave you get 4.5million votes. Now wich one is true? On the 29th of november the electora lcomission said that the participation rate was at around 70% this was the day after the elections after all the votes were counted. Check out France 24 or europe1 ect to see.

[drluve12355]

This lady is way of mark! The UN were never ment to be the final decision maker, they were ment to be a referee, not even a head referee but a linesman. In every republic in the world there is a supreme judicial in Ivory Coast's case they are called the Constituional Council and they are the head referees's. The UN based their decision on the bases of provisional results given at mr. Ouattara's headquarters and they did decided to ignore the fact that the participitation rate rose from 70%

[AfricanPatriot100]

Of course fraud did happen; but it was perpetrated by both camps! Having accepted to abide by the ruling of the UN, which, by the way, is controlling his country, whether you admit it or not, Gbagbo should step down.Biased people can say what they want but Sylvie is right and her analysis is spot on.

[jkkouadio]

i do not know who african people advocacy is but the gentlelady on the panel lack the critical analysis to discuss complex political issues that she has not study or investigate. citing the united nations, the european union and the so called international community is a sign of being out of touch with the reality in the country. truth is fraud did happened. so let investigate and resolve this election conflict. and miss sylvie i'm sorry but your opinion does not count.

[MegaThunderer]

Well done, Sylvie. Power to African Peoples Advocacy!