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Friday 25 March 2011

Forgotten situation in Ivory Coast?

Currently over 1 million people have fled the Ivory Coast after Incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo refused to hand-over power to political rival Alassane Ouattara being internationally recognized as the winner of the countries recent elections, with the African Union concluding an investigation into the countries election that concluded the facts.

Alassane Ouattara


Pro-Gbagbo thugs have attacked foreigners supporting the political rival forcing many countries to send transport to the country to help their foreign national's flee the country. One of the countries doing this is Mali who has sent countless buses to the country to help an estimated 2 million of it's citizens flee from persecution from the country. Even the presence of a United Nations Peace-Keeping force in the nation has not worked to ease tensions in the fragile country, as Pro-Gbagbo thugs murder and mug foreign nationals along with known supports of Alassane.

Laurent Gbagbo


The on-going violence has had a terrible effect on the already battered economy of the Ivory Coast. As the nation's banks and business have been forced to close due to the on-going violence and chaos on the streets, journalists in the country have reports massive streams of traffic going up to 9 miles as people desperately try and flee the country. Like in Libya, Laurent Gbagbo has not been afraid to use the military and countless civilians have been murdered at the hands of his military and political criminal's, reports are even streaming that mercenaries are being hired out to carry out the most brutal crimes against civilians.

While this horrible violence goes in on the country where are the main-stream media and international community? The United States, EU and the African Union have all had strong words for the Libyan regime and have rapidly called and carried out military action in the country, whilst the international media has had a field day reporting on the current fighting in Libya between Pro and Anti-Government forces in the country, today they report on Syria and the government action's to crack down on anti-government protesters in their country, meanwhile hundreds of people are dying in the Ivory Coast.

It seems that the international community has suddenly misplaced it's spine when it comes to the Ivory Coast. While direct foreign military intervention in Libya would create a power-vacuum as the current political structure of the rebels and the current Libyan Government mean's that finding a replacement leader and political system for the country would involve placing a temporary coalition government in charge like in Iraq, the Ivory Coast already has an active political scene and a legal leader that can be easily placed in charge with the assistance of a decently sized UN force that can perform a quick blitz operation against  Laurent Gbagbo to replace him with the legal leader then actively protect the population against a civil war.

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