Dinipevu
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Kabla ya kifo kwanza wataionja Hague ili kifo kiwapate hukohuko......Hague
is waiting for them if not one ....msije mkaomba kama akina Ruto na Uhuru.
Ivory Coast: The Fall of the stubborn Laurent Gbagbo.
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Kabla ya kifo kwanza wataionja Hague ili kifo kiwapate hukohuko......Hague
is waiting for them if not one ....msije mkaomba kama akina Ruto na Uhuru.
TUJITEGEMEE
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At least 1,000 Christians were slaughtered this week at the Salesian Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus mission in Duekoue, Ivory Coast by Muslim troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara. Catholic priests are also being targeted.
Catholic News Service reported......
Sources>>>>Rebel Forces Target Catholic Priests in Ivory Coast – Church Facilities Destroyed | FavStocks
Eti hawa ndio wanaotakiwa kushika dola ya Ivory Coast!!!!!!!
Catholic News Service reported......
Sources>>>>Rebel Forces Target Catholic Priests in Ivory Coast – Church Facilities Destroyed | FavStocks
Eti hawa ndio wanaotakiwa kushika dola ya Ivory Coast!!!!!!!
Askari Kanzu
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4 April 2011 Last updated at 18:22 GMT
Ivory Coast: UN forces fire on pro-Gbagbo camp
UN helicopters have been circling over Abidjan for days
UN helicopters have fired on a camp of forces loyal to Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo as his opponent's fighters launched a new offensive on the main city, Abidjan. Loud explosions have been heard as fighters backing internationally recognised President Alassane Ouattara move towards the presidential palace.
France has authorised its forces to join the UN in protecting civilians. Reports from Abidjan say several people have been kidnapped. The group, including two French nationals, were seized by "armed men" from the Novotel hotel, the French foreign ministry told the AFP news agency.
Heavy weapons
A UN official told the BBC that UN attack helicopters had fired missiles at heavy weapons in a pro-Gbagbo military camp. He said the operation was aimed at preventing use of the weapons, which have been deployed against both UN personnel and Ivory Coast civilians in recent days. The official said the decision to go ahead with the operation was made in light of the mission's mandate to protect civilians.
-BBC
Ivory Coast: UN forces fire on pro-Gbagbo camp
UN helicopters have been circling over Abidjan for days
UN helicopters have fired on a camp of forces loyal to Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo as his opponent's fighters launched a new offensive on the main city, Abidjan. Loud explosions have been heard as fighters backing internationally recognised President Alassane Ouattara move towards the presidential palace.
France has authorised its forces to join the UN in protecting civilians. Reports from Abidjan say several people have been kidnapped. The group, including two French nationals, were seized by "armed men" from the Novotel hotel, the French foreign ministry told the AFP news agency.
Heavy weapons
A UN official told the BBC that UN attack helicopters had fired missiles at heavy weapons in a pro-Gbagbo military camp. He said the operation was aimed at preventing use of the weapons, which have been deployed against both UN personnel and Ivory Coast civilians in recent days. The official said the decision to go ahead with the operation was made in light of the mission's mandate to protect civilians.
-BBC
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4 April 2011 Last updated at 18:22 GMT
Ivory Coast: UN forces fire on pro-Gbagbo camp
UN helicopters have been circling over Abidjan for days
UN helicopters have fired on a camp of forces loyal to Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo as his opponent's fighters launched a new offensive on the main city, Abidjan. Loud explosions have been heard as fighters backing internationally recognised President Alassane Ouattara move towards the presidential palace.
France has authorised its forces to join the UN in protecting civilians. Reports from Abidjan say several people have been kidnapped. The group, including two French nationals, were seized by "armed men" from the Novotel hotel, the French foreign ministry told the AFP news agency.
Heavy weapons
A UN official told the BBC that UN attack helicopters had fired missiles at heavy weapons in a pro-Gbagbo military camp. He said the operation was aimed at preventing use of the weapons, which have been deployed against both UN personnel and Ivory Coast civilians in recent days. The official said the decision to go ahead with the operation was made in light of the mission's mandate to protect civilians.
-BBC
I wonder what would say those who have been criticizing UN intervention in Libya. Would they oppose to this intervention as well?
Askari Kanzu
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Askari Kanzu
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France says its army joins U.N. action in Ivory Coast
Reuters April 5, 2011
PARIS (Reuters) - France has authorized its military to participate in a United Nations operation in Ivory Coast to protect civilians against escalating violence, President Nicolas Sarkozy's Elysee Palace office said on Monday. The Elysee Palace said the operation aimed to neutralize heavy weapons belonging to troops loyal to Laurent Gbagbo who are fighting forces supporting Alassane Ouattara's rival claim to the presidency.
"The Secretary General of the United Nations requested the support of French forces in these operations," said the statement, which added that Sarkozy had responded favorably and in line with a U.N. mandate to protect civilians.
France has close to 12,000 nationals in the ex-colony and announced earlier on Monday that it was sending in a further 150 soldiers from Gabon, which would bring the number of French troops there to 1,650.
-Reuters
Reuters April 5, 2011
PARIS (Reuters) - France has authorized its military to participate in a United Nations operation in Ivory Coast to protect civilians against escalating violence, President Nicolas Sarkozy's Elysee Palace office said on Monday. The Elysee Palace said the operation aimed to neutralize heavy weapons belonging to troops loyal to Laurent Gbagbo who are fighting forces supporting Alassane Ouattara's rival claim to the presidency.
"The Secretary General of the United Nations requested the support of French forces in these operations," said the statement, which added that Sarkozy had responded favorably and in line with a U.N. mandate to protect civilians.
France has close to 12,000 nationals in the ex-colony and announced earlier on Monday that it was sending in a further 150 soldiers from Gabon, which would bring the number of French troops there to 1,650.
-Reuters
mshikachuma
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Ofcoz hata mie nimeona hiyo through Al jazeera tv. Lakini kosa ni la viongozi wa Africa kung'ang'ania madaraka.
Baba Sangara
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Charles Ble Goude the big chicken who was calling on youth to go form a human shield around the presidential palace still talking from his hiding place (trying hard to hide his bullet proof vest) asking kids to go get killed..
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Sasa hapo Marekani akiingilia watu wanasema ooooh US anataka diomond mala wanataka kutuibia malighafi zetu wakati sisi wenyewe tunawakaribisha kwa vitendo vya ajabu. Western Countries should take action against this guy.
Otherwise, AU nao wako kimyaa kama hawaoni, africa tutaendelea kuwa dampo la siraha kutoka nchi za magharibi na Asia kwa kutokuwa na mikakati yetu ya ndani, tutaendelea kuwa wateja wa kila bidhaa kwani hatutaki kutoka hapa tulipa ila tunataka aje mtu/mgeni atutoe which is never a good option.
Otherwise, AU nao wako kimyaa kama hawaoni, africa tutaendelea kuwa dampo la siraha kutoka nchi za magharibi na Asia kwa kutokuwa na mikakati yetu ya ndani, tutaendelea kuwa wateja wa kila bidhaa kwani hatutaki kutoka hapa tulipa ila tunataka aje mtu/mgeni atutoe which is never a good option.
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Jaguar
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Hata mjusi ukimfukuza sana hugeuka nyoka,majeshi yanayomuunga mkono alassane quatara,yale ya ufaransa na yale ya UN yamezidisha mashambulizi kwa kambi na hospitali za kijeshi zinazomuunga mkono laurent gbagbo mjini abidjan.majeshi ya quatara yamedai kuiteka ikulu aliyomo kiongozi anayeng'ang'ania madarakani,gbagbo.Hii ni dalili tosha kuwa mwisho wa jeuri ya gbagbo umefikia kikomo.
unaumwa ugonjwa wa kutofwatilia news.
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The search for true democracy continues, as African leaders re-define it and adapt only one element of Western democratic values and literally translate elections to mean democracy. Not that they do not know any better.
In this well-written article, Ezra Suruma & Brandon Routman explore what makes a country truly democratic, and take Ivory Coast and the disturbing political events there as an example of what true democracy is not.
The people of Ivory Coast are paying the ultimate price for democracy. At least 400 have died since the December 2010 elections, nearly one million are internally displaced and over 90,000 have fled to Liberia. Abidjan, a city of over 4 million people, is quickly becoming a battlefield and a ghost town with a quarter of its population uprooted.
Meanwhile the supporters of both Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara are recruiting more soldiers and intensifying preparations for the war ahead. Is this the right way to achieve democracy? How did Ivory Coast get to this point?
Political history
Ivory Coast had a history of political stability and economic success that lasted from 1960, when it achieved political independence from France, until 1993, when its president of 33 years, Felix Houphouet Boigny, died. President Boignys dictatorship followed French colonial rule that lasted from 1893 to 1960. So it was not until 1990 that the people of Ivory Coast held their first multiparty election. (Gbagbo challenged Boigny for the presidency and was easily defeated.)
The next election was in 1995 and was rigged so that Ouattara, an ex-prime minister of the country, could not participate in it (on the grounds that his father was from the neighbouring country of Burkina Faso).
As a result, Henri Bedie, who took over the presidency when Boigny died in 1993, ran virtually unopposed and not surprisingly won with 96 percent of the vote. Subsequently in 1999, he was overthrown in a coup detat by General Robert Guei, who then organised elections in 2000 and attempted to rig them himself.
Crude rigging
He failed and was forced to flee when his opponents supportersthose of Gbagboviolently protested claiming that their leader was the true winner.
In 2002, the country broke out into civil war and when the time came for Gbagbo to hold another election and run again in 2005, the war provided a convenient basis for him to repeatedly postpone the political contest. Finally in November 2010, the election took place and its outcome gave the country two presidents, Ouattara and Gbagbo, both of whom claim victory.
Democracy experiments
In short, Ivory Coast has never experienced what could be called true democracy. When other African countries were making attempts at achieving this model, Ivory Coast was under the thumb of a dictator. Congo under Mobutu and Somalia under Siade Barre suffered similar setbacks under dictators, but without the economic development that Ivory Coast achieved. In each case, once the dictatorship ended the country promptly fell apart. Each had essentially no experience with the democratic processes and insufficient institutions to help them guide their way.
Upon the dissolution of the Boigny dictatorship, attempts were made to adopt democracy. But this essentially forced the country to choose between rule by either its south or the north. For the south, the rule by the north was tantamount to surrendering power to foreign immigrants mainly from Burkina Faso in the north. For the north, southern rule meant continued discrimination and marginalisation. There was no one leader who had sufficient political skill and credibility to engineer a pragmatic coalition so that all parties in the country could peacefully participate in government.
In 1965, Sir Arthur Lewis, a Nobel laureate from the Caribbean, wrote in his classic work, Politics in West Africa, that the classical model of western, winner-takes-all democracy would not work in Africa. He argued that the ethnic divide or cleavage in most African countries would not yield peaceful electional outcomes. This is precisely what is happening in Ivory Coast. It is also what happened in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Congo (the DRC) and in Uganda during the 1960s and 1970s. Compromises in Kenya and Zimbabwe have been criticized for not working well; however, they are better than the alternative, which is the war now happening in Ivory Coast. Surely those affected in the country, those who have seen loved ones die or flee from their homes, would prefer a new political arrangement between the north and south over the chaos and tragedy of war.
The colonial borders drawn in the Berlin Congress in 1884 cannot be unmade (the example of Southern Sudan notwithstanding). Consequently, it is incumbent on each country to devise a formula of democracy that creates peace and justice. A democratic model that leads to war is not a good model. It springs from an assumption that has been proved wrong time and again: that participants will accept the outcome of an electoral process, whatever that outcome may be. Moreover, it privileges the voting process over all else. Yet, it is senseless to conduct elections in an active battlefieldwhich Ivory Coast has basically been since 2002. The solution to the countrys problems is not to force one side to conquer the other through the ballot box. The solution is to share governance and access to the countrys resources. Sir Arthur Lewis noted that most European nations were ruled by coalition governments from the end of the World War II to the time of his writing in 1963. It may be time to revisit this model if Africa is to enjoy a more peaceful democracy.
Political parties
All African nations should ensure that political parties are broad based and enjoy credible participation of all tribes and religions. Parties that are based in one part of the country or only appeal to one faith or one tribe are direct and unacceptable threats to peace and stability. Additionally, national constitutions should reflect the true ethnic and religious forces in each country, instead of simply photocopying constitutions from the West.
What is going on in Ivory Coast is unacceptable. The type of democracy that it and Africa as a continent needs is the type that brings peace, unity and justice rather than wara democratic model that unifies rather than kills.
Dr Ezra Suruma is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative, and also Senior Presidential Advisor on Finance & Economic Planning in Uganda.
Brandon Routman is a renowned Research Assistant, Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative
Daily Monitor: - Insight |Ivory Coast deserves deeper democracy
In this well-written article, Ezra Suruma & Brandon Routman explore what makes a country truly democratic, and take Ivory Coast and the disturbing political events there as an example of what true democracy is not.
The people of Ivory Coast are paying the ultimate price for democracy. At least 400 have died since the December 2010 elections, nearly one million are internally displaced and over 90,000 have fled to Liberia. Abidjan, a city of over 4 million people, is quickly becoming a battlefield and a ghost town with a quarter of its population uprooted.
Meanwhile the supporters of both Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara are recruiting more soldiers and intensifying preparations for the war ahead. Is this the right way to achieve democracy? How did Ivory Coast get to this point?
Political history
Ivory Coast had a history of political stability and economic success that lasted from 1960, when it achieved political independence from France, until 1993, when its president of 33 years, Felix Houphouet Boigny, died. President Boignys dictatorship followed French colonial rule that lasted from 1893 to 1960. So it was not until 1990 that the people of Ivory Coast held their first multiparty election. (Gbagbo challenged Boigny for the presidency and was easily defeated.)
The next election was in 1995 and was rigged so that Ouattara, an ex-prime minister of the country, could not participate in it (on the grounds that his father was from the neighbouring country of Burkina Faso).
As a result, Henri Bedie, who took over the presidency when Boigny died in 1993, ran virtually unopposed and not surprisingly won with 96 percent of the vote. Subsequently in 1999, he was overthrown in a coup detat by General Robert Guei, who then organised elections in 2000 and attempted to rig them himself.
Crude rigging
He failed and was forced to flee when his opponents supportersthose of Gbagboviolently protested claiming that their leader was the true winner.
In 2002, the country broke out into civil war and when the time came for Gbagbo to hold another election and run again in 2005, the war provided a convenient basis for him to repeatedly postpone the political contest. Finally in November 2010, the election took place and its outcome gave the country two presidents, Ouattara and Gbagbo, both of whom claim victory.
Democracy experiments
In short, Ivory Coast has never experienced what could be called true democracy. When other African countries were making attempts at achieving this model, Ivory Coast was under the thumb of a dictator. Congo under Mobutu and Somalia under Siade Barre suffered similar setbacks under dictators, but without the economic development that Ivory Coast achieved. In each case, once the dictatorship ended the country promptly fell apart. Each had essentially no experience with the democratic processes and insufficient institutions to help them guide their way.
Upon the dissolution of the Boigny dictatorship, attempts were made to adopt democracy. But this essentially forced the country to choose between rule by either its south or the north. For the south, the rule by the north was tantamount to surrendering power to foreign immigrants mainly from Burkina Faso in the north. For the north, southern rule meant continued discrimination and marginalisation. There was no one leader who had sufficient political skill and credibility to engineer a pragmatic coalition so that all parties in the country could peacefully participate in government.
In 1965, Sir Arthur Lewis, a Nobel laureate from the Caribbean, wrote in his classic work, Politics in West Africa, that the classical model of western, winner-takes-all democracy would not work in Africa. He argued that the ethnic divide or cleavage in most African countries would not yield peaceful electional outcomes. This is precisely what is happening in Ivory Coast. It is also what happened in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Congo (the DRC) and in Uganda during the 1960s and 1970s. Compromises in Kenya and Zimbabwe have been criticized for not working well; however, they are better than the alternative, which is the war now happening in Ivory Coast. Surely those affected in the country, those who have seen loved ones die or flee from their homes, would prefer a new political arrangement between the north and south over the chaos and tragedy of war.
The colonial borders drawn in the Berlin Congress in 1884 cannot be unmade (the example of Southern Sudan notwithstanding). Consequently, it is incumbent on each country to devise a formula of democracy that creates peace and justice. A democratic model that leads to war is not a good model. It springs from an assumption that has been proved wrong time and again: that participants will accept the outcome of an electoral process, whatever that outcome may be. Moreover, it privileges the voting process over all else. Yet, it is senseless to conduct elections in an active battlefieldwhich Ivory Coast has basically been since 2002. The solution to the countrys problems is not to force one side to conquer the other through the ballot box. The solution is to share governance and access to the countrys resources. Sir Arthur Lewis noted that most European nations were ruled by coalition governments from the end of the World War II to the time of his writing in 1963. It may be time to revisit this model if Africa is to enjoy a more peaceful democracy.
Political parties
All African nations should ensure that political parties are broad based and enjoy credible participation of all tribes and religions. Parties that are based in one part of the country or only appeal to one faith or one tribe are direct and unacceptable threats to peace and stability. Additionally, national constitutions should reflect the true ethnic and religious forces in each country, instead of simply photocopying constitutions from the West.
What is going on in Ivory Coast is unacceptable. The type of democracy that it and Africa as a continent needs is the type that brings peace, unity and justice rather than wara democratic model that unifies rather than kills.
Dr Ezra Suruma is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative, and also Senior Presidential Advisor on Finance & Economic Planning in Uganda.
Brandon Routman is a renowned Research Assistant, Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative
Daily Monitor: - Insight |Ivory Coast deserves deeper democracy
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