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Ivory Coast November 2010 Election
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No. I would be more inclined to say it's Laurent Gbagbo who wants to keep his finger in the pie - a la Chavez. I would suggest you do read up a little more on this.johnnyo said:
Refugees flee Ivory Coast
Thousands of refugees are fleeing violence in the politically unstable Ivory Coast in West Africa. Charity ActionAid reported more than 22,000 refugees have already crossed the border into neighbouring Liberia.
Refugees are have been leaving the troubled Ivory Coast after the disputed election. ActionAid is reporting that thousands of refugees have crossed into Liberia. And of these 15,000 or about 70 per cent are women and children.
Violence in Ivory Coast looks set to increase as the BBC is reporting president elect Alassane Ouattara calling for a West African special forces operation to remove the incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo.
There are concerns that the political upheaval in the Ivory Coast could destabilise other countries in the region. Liberia recently suffered its own civil war and continues to have a United Nations peace keeping force in the country.
ActionAid’s country representative in Liberia Korto Williams said: “When one country in West Africa slips into conflict, it can easily destabilise its neighbours. The exodus of people from Ivory Coast will inevitably increase if violence escalates. Not only will this place growing economic pressure on already fragile neighbouring countries, but the health and security of refugees, particularly of women and children, is also of huge concern.”
Access to clean water and food could be difficult for these refugees. Children’s education will be suspended and finding adequate healthcare will be a challenge.
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Ivory Coast: Gbagbo Rival Wants Commando Op:
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The man officially recognised as the Ivory Coast's president has called for special forces to remove the incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo in a commando operation.
Alassane Ouattara said that Gbagbo could be removed without violence and that elite forces have previously carried out similar operations in Latin America and Africa.
The regional bloc of West African states, ECOWAS, has threatened military action but African leaders become reluctant, fearing mass casualties and a possible return to civil war.
The United Nations has said it hopes to deploy up to 2,000 more peacekeepers.
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Thousands of refugees are fleeing violence in the politically unstable Ivory Coast in West Africa. Charity ActionAid reported more than 22,000 refugees have already crossed the border into neighbouring Liberia.
Refugees are have been leaving the troubled Ivory Coast after the disputed election. ActionAid is reporting that thousands of refugees have crossed into Liberia. And of these 15,000 or about 70 per cent are women and children.
Violence in Ivory Coast looks set to increase as the BBC is reporting president elect Alassane Ouattara calling for a West African special forces operation to remove the incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo.
There are concerns that the political upheaval in the Ivory Coast could destabilise other countries in the region. Liberia recently suffered its own civil war and continues to have a United Nations peace keeping force in the country.
ActionAid’s country representative in Liberia Korto Williams said: “When one country in West Africa slips into conflict, it can easily destabilise its neighbours. The exodus of people from Ivory Coast will inevitably increase if violence escalates. Not only will this place growing economic pressure on already fragile neighbouring countries, but the health and security of refugees, particularly of women and children, is also of huge concern.”
Access to clean water and food could be difficult for these refugees. Children’s education will be suspended and finding adequate healthcare will be a challenge.
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Ivory Coast: Gbagbo Rival Wants Commando Op:
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The man officially recognised as the Ivory Coast's president has called for special forces to remove the incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo in a commando operation.
Alassane Ouattara said that Gbagbo could be removed without violence and that elite forces have previously carried out similar operations in Latin America and Africa.
The regional bloc of West African states, ECOWAS, has threatened military action but African leaders become reluctant, fearing mass casualties and a possible return to civil war.
The United Nations has said it hopes to deploy up to 2,000 more peacekeepers.
Article with video continues at link....
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Agence France-Presse · Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011
Ivory Coast expels Canadian, British envoys
ABIDJAN — The Ivory Coast government of embattled leader Laurent Gbagbo expelled the British and Canadian envoys after the two countries said they no longer accepted his ambassadors, state television said Thursday.
“Through the application of the principle of reciprocity governing diplomatic relations, the ministry informs Madame Marie Isabelle Massip that her accreditation as Canadian ambassador in Ivory Coast is ended,” government spokesman Ahoua Don Mello said.
“For the same reasons, the foreign ministry informs ambassador Nicholas James Westcott that his accreditation as United Kingdom and Northern Ireland ambassador is also ended,” he said, reading a statement.
Their diplomatic privileges and immunity remain in place until they leave Ivory Coast or until a reasonable amount of time has passed for them to leave, the spokesman said.
London on December 31 said it no longer recognized the ambassador appointed by Mr. Gbagbo, Philippe D Djangone-Bi, and that it would recognise only a new envoy named by his internationally recognised rival, Alassane Ouattara.
The decision was made in line with a decision taken by Britain’s fellow European Union members.
Ottawa said on December 29 it no longer recognized Gbagbo’s envoy to Canada, Louis L.B. Bony, and that it also would only accept a new head of mission appointed by Mr. Ouattara.
Mr. Gbagbo is under increasing pressure to step down following a November 28 presidential run-off that the world says was won by Mr. Ouattara, who has for weeks been besieged by Gbgabo forces at a hotel in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital Abidjan.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/Ivory+Coast+expels+Canadian+British+envoys/4071434/story.html
Ivory Coast expels Canadian, British envoys
ABIDJAN — The Ivory Coast government of embattled leader Laurent Gbagbo expelled the British and Canadian envoys after the two countries said they no longer accepted his ambassadors, state television said Thursday.
“Through the application of the principle of reciprocity governing diplomatic relations, the ministry informs Madame Marie Isabelle Massip that her accreditation as Canadian ambassador in Ivory Coast is ended,” government spokesman Ahoua Don Mello said.
“For the same reasons, the foreign ministry informs ambassador Nicholas James Westcott that his accreditation as United Kingdom and Northern Ireland ambassador is also ended,” he said, reading a statement.
Their diplomatic privileges and immunity remain in place until they leave Ivory Coast or until a reasonable amount of time has passed for them to leave, the spokesman said.
London on December 31 said it no longer recognized the ambassador appointed by Mr. Gbagbo, Philippe D Djangone-Bi, and that it would recognise only a new envoy named by his internationally recognised rival, Alassane Ouattara.
The decision was made in line with a decision taken by Britain’s fellow European Union members.
Ottawa said on December 29 it no longer recognized Gbagbo’s envoy to Canada, Louis L.B. Bony, and that it also would only accept a new head of mission appointed by Mr. Ouattara.
Mr. Gbagbo is under increasing pressure to step down following a November 28 presidential run-off that the world says was won by Mr. Ouattara, who has for weeks been besieged by Gbgabo forces at a hotel in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital Abidjan.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/Ivory+Coast+expels+Canadian+British+envoys/4071434/story.html
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That ought to do it. ;D57Chevy said:
Ivory Coast: Deadly ethnic clashes in Duekoue
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The BBC's John James in Abidjan says the area around Duekoue, some 500km (300 miles) west of the commercial capital, is known as the Wild West.
It has long been one of the most unstable regions of Ivory Coast and saw clashes at the height of the civil war.
The area is home to various militia groups which have not been disarmed - some of whom are loyal to Mr Gbagbo.
Mercenaries from neighbouring Liberia are also in the region, he says.
The recent trouble has mainly been between the pro-Gbagbo Guere community and Malinke groups, who originate from the north of the country.
The unrest began three days ago when shots were fired at a minibus, killing a Malinke passenger.
Residents of the town report a large number of houses burned and widespread destruction.
"We feel that what happened in Duekoue is a reflection of the tendency towards inter-communal tension and violence," UN mission in Ivory Coast human rights spokesman Simon Munzu is quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
The Ivorian army denies that former rebel soldiers allied to Mr Ouattara were involved.
But the inter-ethnic violence shows how instability could spread if the stand-off continues and the state starts to lose control of the situation, our reporter says.
The UN, which has some 10,000 peacekeepers in the country, says 210 people have been killed in the past four weeks.
The tension in the west has already pushed members of both communities to flee into neighbouring Liberia - some 22,000 people have crossed the border so far, the UN says.
On Thursday, the Liberian government announced plans to build a refugee camp 50km from the border.
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The BBC's John James in Abidjan says the area around Duekoue, some 500km (300 miles) west of the commercial capital, is known as the Wild West.
It has long been one of the most unstable regions of Ivory Coast and saw clashes at the height of the civil war.
The area is home to various militia groups which have not been disarmed - some of whom are loyal to Mr Gbagbo.
Mercenaries from neighbouring Liberia are also in the region, he says.
The recent trouble has mainly been between the pro-Gbagbo Guere community and Malinke groups, who originate from the north of the country.
The unrest began three days ago when shots were fired at a minibus, killing a Malinke passenger.
Residents of the town report a large number of houses burned and widespread destruction.
"We feel that what happened in Duekoue is a reflection of the tendency towards inter-communal tension and violence," UN mission in Ivory Coast human rights spokesman Simon Munzu is quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
The Ivorian army denies that former rebel soldiers allied to Mr Ouattara were involved.
But the inter-ethnic violence shows how instability could spread if the stand-off continues and the state starts to lose control of the situation, our reporter says.
The UN, which has some 10,000 peacekeepers in the country, says 210 people have been killed in the past four weeks.
The tension in the west has already pushed members of both communities to flee into neighbouring Liberia - some 22,000 people have crossed the border so far, the UN says.
On Thursday, the Liberian government announced plans to build a refugee camp 50km from the border.
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Ivory Coast: Is the UN good for anything? (Or Prof. Byers?)
http://unambig.com/ivory-coast-is-the-un-good-for-anything-or-prof-byers/
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http://unambig.com/ivory-coast-is-the-un-good-for-anything-or-prof-byers/
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MarkOttawa said:
I really, really wish you would stop posting snippets of someone else's articles, just to whet my appetite and then drag me over to your blog to increase your count. If it can't stand on it's own, it doesn't deserve too.
Just post the whole thing here like everyone else does.
I think it's about time you gave us a break and either participated full time as a member, posting articles like everyone else, or took out an advertisng agreement with Mike.
You're wearing out your welcome and your mercenary intent has grown way too old. There has been more than a few complaints.
Officially, I have now put you on 'Ignore' so I won't see your posts anymore.
Milnet.ca Staff
Gbagbo forces attack on UN vehicles in Ivory Coast
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ABIDJAN/UNITED NATIONS - Forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo began attacking and burning UN vehicles in Ivory Coast on Thursday as tensions escalated between Gbagbo and the world body, which recognizes his rival as president.
The world's top cocoa grower has been locked in a violent power struggle since a Nov. 28 election that both Gbagbo and his rival, Alassane Ouattara, claim to have won. The United Nations says Ouattara won the vote, but Gbagbo, who took power in 2000, has rejected the UN-certified tally.
In Geneva, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said armed forces were blocking access to a site near the central town of Daloa where a mass grave had been reported, as they had already been accused of doing at sites in and around Abidjan.
UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said in a statement that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was "deeply concerned that regular and irregular forces loyal to Mr. Gbagbo have begun to attack and burn United Nations vehicles."
"Beginning this morning, there have been a total of six incidents involving such attacks in Abidjan where a UNOCI military vehicle was burned," he said, referring to the UN peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast.
There was also a stone-throwing attack on an ambulance in which the driver and doctor were injured, UN officials said.
'ANGRY MOBS'
UN officials told Reuters privately the situation in Abidjan was becoming increasingly tense and confrontational. They say that Gbagbo's forces have shifted their tactics away from military confrontations and are now encouraging crowds of people to attack UNOCI vehicles instead.
That has made it increasingly difficult for UNOCI, which has some 10,000 troops and police in Ivory Coast, to respond to the attacks, since it does not want to injure civilians.
"Gbagbo's setting angry mobs loose on UNOCI," a UN diplomat said. "If they fire into a crowd, all hell will break loose."
UN officials said they were concerned that Gbagbo was trying to provoke UNOCI into firing on civilians in order to spark a massive backlash that would force UNOCI to withdraw.
Gbagbo ordered UNOCI out of Ivory Coast last month, but the United Nations has refused to recognize his authority to make such decisions. The UN Security Council was expected to approve a 2,000-troop increase for UNOCI on Friday, but diplomats said the vote had been postponed until next week.
The November election was meant to heal a nation divided into a government-held south and a rebel-run north by a 2002-2003 civil war, but has instead only deepened divisions.
Gbagbo controls the security forces and allied militias, which UN officials suspect of rights abuses. The stand-off has sent cocoa prices to four-month highs in recent weeks.
REPORTS OF MASS GRAVE
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the United States was increasingly concerned about "the Gbagbo regime inciting violence against the United Nations" and added, "We strongly condemn interference" with its work.
In a gesture of support for Ouattara, the State Department said it accepted his choice to be the Ivory Coast's ambassador to the United States, whom he did not identify.
Pillay told Reuters in Geneva about reports of a third mass grave in Ivory Coast that is off-limits to UN personnel.
"I am very concerned now that a third mass grave has been discovered," she said. "Not only my representative there but the UN representative has not been allowed access to the mass graves."
The United Nations suspects many of the dead were killed by pro-Gbagbo security forces or allied militias in night-time raids on neighborhoods, with hundreds more abducted.
Gbagbo's camp has repeatedly dismissed reports of mass graves and "death squads" as fabrications by Ouattara allies.
UN officials say they are concerned about ethnic clashes in western Ivory Coast that have resulted in dozens of deaths.
UN aid chief Valerie Amos warned of a potential humanitarian crisis. She said in a statement the recent violence had caused a 10-fold increase in the number of internal refugees in Ivory Coast, showing "how quickly a political crisis can have grave humanitarian consequences."
Over 200 people have died in violence since the vote, and fears of more conflict have prompted more than 20,000 people to flee into neighboring Liberia, according to UN figures.
Clashes in Abidjan between security forces loyal to Gbagbo and supporters of Ouattara killed six policemen and some civilians on Wednesday. Five died in another clash on Tuesday.
Gbagbo's Interior Ministry said some of the police who died in Wednesday's clashes had been killed when their vehicle was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades. Ouattara's camp said Gbagbo's forces had killed at least seven civilians.
Underlining the growing tensions between Gbagbo supporters and UNOCI, pro-Gbagbo students attacked and burned a UN pickup truck in Abidjan on Thursday in one of the incidents Nesirky referred to in his statement.
"It's an opportunity for us to show that with our bare hands we can also take action," Max Amani, a student, said. "Each day we hear shooting in Abobo we will burn 10 UNOCI cars," he said as others jumped up and down on the burnt-out vehicle.
Reuters witnesses saw a dozen armored vehicles ferrying troops with automatic weapons on patrol in the northern and largely pro-Ouattara neighborhoods of Abobo and Ayaman.
Soldiers manned makeshift checkpoints to control traffic.
"The people still live in fear in Abobo," resident Ladji Bakayoko said.
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A police officer stands near a UN vehicle which was burnt during a protest by students at the junction of Riviera 2 in Abidjan January 13, 2011. Students set ablaze one U.N. vehicle in their area to support their leader Laurent Gbagbo who has refused to step down, witnesses said.
Photograph by: Luc Gnago, Reuters
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ABIDJAN/UNITED NATIONS - Forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo began attacking and burning UN vehicles in Ivory Coast on Thursday as tensions escalated between Gbagbo and the world body, which recognizes his rival as president.
The world's top cocoa grower has been locked in a violent power struggle since a Nov. 28 election that both Gbagbo and his rival, Alassane Ouattara, claim to have won. The United Nations says Ouattara won the vote, but Gbagbo, who took power in 2000, has rejected the UN-certified tally.
In Geneva, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said armed forces were blocking access to a site near the central town of Daloa where a mass grave had been reported, as they had already been accused of doing at sites in and around Abidjan.
UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said in a statement that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was "deeply concerned that regular and irregular forces loyal to Mr. Gbagbo have begun to attack and burn United Nations vehicles."
"Beginning this morning, there have been a total of six incidents involving such attacks in Abidjan where a UNOCI military vehicle was burned," he said, referring to the UN peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast.
There was also a stone-throwing attack on an ambulance in which the driver and doctor were injured, UN officials said.
'ANGRY MOBS'
UN officials told Reuters privately the situation in Abidjan was becoming increasingly tense and confrontational. They say that Gbagbo's forces have shifted their tactics away from military confrontations and are now encouraging crowds of people to attack UNOCI vehicles instead.
That has made it increasingly difficult for UNOCI, which has some 10,000 troops and police in Ivory Coast, to respond to the attacks, since it does not want to injure civilians.
"Gbagbo's setting angry mobs loose on UNOCI," a UN diplomat said. "If they fire into a crowd, all hell will break loose."
UN officials said they were concerned that Gbagbo was trying to provoke UNOCI into firing on civilians in order to spark a massive backlash that would force UNOCI to withdraw.
Gbagbo ordered UNOCI out of Ivory Coast last month, but the United Nations has refused to recognize his authority to make such decisions. The UN Security Council was expected to approve a 2,000-troop increase for UNOCI on Friday, but diplomats said the vote had been postponed until next week.
The November election was meant to heal a nation divided into a government-held south and a rebel-run north by a 2002-2003 civil war, but has instead only deepened divisions.
Gbagbo controls the security forces and allied militias, which UN officials suspect of rights abuses. The stand-off has sent cocoa prices to four-month highs in recent weeks.
REPORTS OF MASS GRAVE
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the United States was increasingly concerned about "the Gbagbo regime inciting violence against the United Nations" and added, "We strongly condemn interference" with its work.
In a gesture of support for Ouattara, the State Department said it accepted his choice to be the Ivory Coast's ambassador to the United States, whom he did not identify.
Pillay told Reuters in Geneva about reports of a third mass grave in Ivory Coast that is off-limits to UN personnel.
"I am very concerned now that a third mass grave has been discovered," she said. "Not only my representative there but the UN representative has not been allowed access to the mass graves."
The United Nations suspects many of the dead were killed by pro-Gbagbo security forces or allied militias in night-time raids on neighborhoods, with hundreds more abducted.
Gbagbo's camp has repeatedly dismissed reports of mass graves and "death squads" as fabrications by Ouattara allies.
UN officials say they are concerned about ethnic clashes in western Ivory Coast that have resulted in dozens of deaths.
UN aid chief Valerie Amos warned of a potential humanitarian crisis. She said in a statement the recent violence had caused a 10-fold increase in the number of internal refugees in Ivory Coast, showing "how quickly a political crisis can have grave humanitarian consequences."
Over 200 people have died in violence since the vote, and fears of more conflict have prompted more than 20,000 people to flee into neighboring Liberia, according to UN figures.
Clashes in Abidjan between security forces loyal to Gbagbo and supporters of Ouattara killed six policemen and some civilians on Wednesday. Five died in another clash on Tuesday.
Gbagbo's Interior Ministry said some of the police who died in Wednesday's clashes had been killed when their vehicle was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades. Ouattara's camp said Gbagbo's forces had killed at least seven civilians.
Underlining the growing tensions between Gbagbo supporters and UNOCI, pro-Gbagbo students attacked and burned a UN pickup truck in Abidjan on Thursday in one of the incidents Nesirky referred to in his statement.
"It's an opportunity for us to show that with our bare hands we can also take action," Max Amani, a student, said. "Each day we hear shooting in Abobo we will burn 10 UNOCI cars," he said as others jumped up and down on the burnt-out vehicle.
Reuters witnesses saw a dozen armored vehicles ferrying troops with automatic weapons on patrol in the northern and largely pro-Ouattara neighborhoods of Abobo and Ayaman.
Soldiers manned makeshift checkpoints to control traffic.
"The people still live in fear in Abobo," resident Ladji Bakayoko said.
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A police officer stands near a UN vehicle which was burnt during a protest by students at the junction of Riviera 2 in Abidjan January 13, 2011. Students set ablaze one U.N. vehicle in their area to support their leader Laurent Gbagbo who has refused to step down, witnesses said.
Photograph by: Luc Gnago, Reuters
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Talk, talk, talk.
Alassane Ouattara just wants to get control as it is his turn to loot the country.
Alassane Ouattara just wants to get control as it is his turn to loot the country.
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Rifleman62 said:
Bingo! And +300 Milpoints for getting the right answer. Further, there is nothing productive - politically useful, economically sound or militarily feasible that Canada can or should try to do about it.
Rifleman62 said:
And I really hope (dream?!) the future proves you wrong as it is about time this country gets back to its "old self": The Paris of Africa; The Pearl of Africa with a stable economy and political environment.
It used to be a world leader with its cacao and coffee productions. Ivory Coast produces its own electricity and sales it to other countries. And of course, it has gaz and oil... a bit (Maybe just enough to keep the U.S. "interested/involved"?).
Alassane Ouattara seems to be closer to the Ivorian people than Gbagbo is/was.
Alea
And a big + for that ALEA
EU agrees to freeze assets of Gbagbo clan: Diplomats
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BRUSSELS - The EU decided Friday to freeze the European assets of Ivory Coast's outcast leader Laurent Gbagbo, 84 associates and 11 vital industries over his refusal to cede power, diplomats said.
The sanctions target the board that manages the country's coffee and cocoa business, the national oil company Petroci, the port of Abidjan, the state broadcaster and banks, diplomats said on condition of anonymity.
The EU had already slapped a travel ban on Gbagbo, his wife and 57 other Ivorians in late December. The visa ban was expanded on Friday and now totals the 85 people hit by the assets freeze.
European Union governments signed off on the new sanctions following a meeting of experts in Brussels.
Gbagbo and his associates have likely had time to pull their financial assets out of Europe "but the measure remains important for its political symbolism," a diplomat said.
Another diplomat said the sanctions would "especially have an impact on future transactions."
The EU and United Nations have recognized opposition leader Alassane Ouattara as head of state after the country's November 28 election. But Gbagbo has rejected international calls to stand down.
The new EU sanctions came eight days after the United States froze the assets of Gbagbo, his wife Simone and three people from their inner circle.
Three people who were among the 59 people hit by the travel ban in December have been removed from the list, including a French couple involved in security companies in Ivory Coast, a diplomat said.
The new list includes members of Gbagbo's "illegitimate government" and members of the constitutional court accused of taking part in the validation of allegedly false election results.
Military officials, members of Gbagbo's security, newspaper directors and advisors to the incumbent are also on the list.
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EU agrees to freeze assets of Gbagbo clan: Diplomats
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BRUSSELS - The EU decided Friday to freeze the European assets of Ivory Coast's outcast leader Laurent Gbagbo, 84 associates and 11 vital industries over his refusal to cede power, diplomats said.
The sanctions target the board that manages the country's coffee and cocoa business, the national oil company Petroci, the port of Abidjan, the state broadcaster and banks, diplomats said on condition of anonymity.
The EU had already slapped a travel ban on Gbagbo, his wife and 57 other Ivorians in late December. The visa ban was expanded on Friday and now totals the 85 people hit by the assets freeze.
European Union governments signed off on the new sanctions following a meeting of experts in Brussels.
Gbagbo and his associates have likely had time to pull their financial assets out of Europe "but the measure remains important for its political symbolism," a diplomat said.
Another diplomat said the sanctions would "especially have an impact on future transactions."
The EU and United Nations have recognized opposition leader Alassane Ouattara as head of state after the country's November 28 election. But Gbagbo has rejected international calls to stand down.
The new EU sanctions came eight days after the United States froze the assets of Gbagbo, his wife Simone and three people from their inner circle.
Three people who were among the 59 people hit by the travel ban in December have been removed from the list, including a French couple involved in security companies in Ivory Coast, a diplomat said.
The new list includes members of Gbagbo's "illegitimate government" and members of the constitutional court accused of taking part in the validation of allegedly false election results.
Military officials, members of Gbagbo's security, newspaper directors and advisors to the incumbent are also on the list.
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Zimbabwe
Rifleman62 said:
With all respect Sir... I think we are talking about Ivory Coast here, not Zimbabwe.
So!
Ivory Coast used to be called the Paris of Africa mainly because of its commercial capital (the political capital being Yamoussoukro) Abidjan.
Abidjan, before the coup in 1999, was an extremely developed town with modern services like public communication data, internet and cellular, in which Europeens (and others) conducted most of West African business operations. This country has a railway, airports etc...
Oh... and it had very highly regarded school systems... as I know because this is were I learned how to walk, speak and so much more i.e. ice-skating. Yes! I learned how to skate on ice in Ivory Coast. In the Hotel Ivoire of Abidjan (the very same hotel in which Alassane Ouattara is right now) there is a skating ring.
Last but not least, Ivory Coast is/was one of the largest exporters of cacao, coffee beans and even palm oil... and 2 of their most important clients are/were the U.S. and France.
It also produces natural gaz and oil... enough to suffice for the all country's needs and even to sell a bit to others if possible.
Alea
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Alea said:
In fairness, you could say similar things about Zimbabwe and, indeed, about many failed African states: they "used to be" and they "had a very highly regarded" and they were the "largest exporters of." But they are none of those things now. Things have gone from bad to worse but they are not bad enough, yet, and there is not enough at stake, yet to justify the sort of Western intervention that:
1. Might merit Canadian participation; and
2. Might do some good.
Until then we can, and should, leave Africa to the tender mercies of the UN and, if we want any action at all, China.
You cannot put all the blame as to why Zimbabwe is no longer the breadbasket of Africa on political aspects.
Nor on UN measures that may have taken place, and less so if Canadian peacekeepers were in the region.
Zimbabwe was considered the breadbasket of Africa almost forever because of its rich soil.
There has been a massive drought in that country for some time now.
as for The Ivory Coast
Canada has made no commitment, nor has The Ivoriens asked for Canadian peacekeepers.
And it is not because of Canadian input that there will be a settlement.
That country's major exports of coffee, cacao, oil, etc will remain the same irregardless
of who is in power.
Alassane Ouattara was fairly elected and so is therefore recognized on the world stage as the official leader.
The Gbagbo clan who does not want to "stand down" has been rightfully defeated.
But perhaps, maybe, there could be some cooperation between the two parties.
IMO something to watch.
Nor on UN measures that may have taken place, and less so if Canadian peacekeepers were in the region.
Zimbabwe was considered the breadbasket of Africa almost forever because of its rich soil.
There has been a massive drought in that country for some time now.
as for The Ivory Coast
Canada has made no commitment, nor has The Ivoriens asked for Canadian peacekeepers.
And it is not because of Canadian input that there will be a settlement.
That country's major exports of coffee, cacao, oil, etc will remain the same irregardless
of who is in power.
Alassane Ouattara was fairly elected and so is therefore recognized on the world stage as the official leader.
The Gbagbo clan who does not want to "stand down" has been rightfully defeated.
But perhaps, maybe, there could be some cooperation between the two parties.
IMO something to watch.
E.R. Campbell said:
I don't recall having read or heard about Canada's participation being asked by anyone in IC nor in the rest of the world.
In fact, even participation from the U.S. and France has not been asked.
But I might be wrong.
Alea
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57Chevy and Alea: my reference was to "failed African states" in general, not just to either Côte d'Ivoire or Zimbabwe, and it was predicated on this statement from the lead article posted by 57Chevy:
AU peacekeeping forces have proven to be less than effective, even with some Western help. IF (ever) the UN actually wants to do something - but see here for a sentiment I heartily endorse - then it will come a callin' for Western troops and the likes of Gerald Caplin, Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis will be beating the Liberal and NDP drums, advocating that Canada join in. We should not.
If the UN wants an effective UN force to actually do something in Africa it needs to ask China and India to do the job.
Edit: major typo! :-[
AU peacekeeping forces have proven to be less than effective, even with some Western help. IF (ever) the UN actually wants to do something - but see here for a sentiment I heartily endorse - then it will come a callin' for Western troops and the likes of Gerald Caplin, Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis will be beating the Liberal and NDP drums, advocating that Canada join in. We should not.
If the UN wants an effective UN force to actually do something in Africa it needs to ask China and India to do the job.
Edit: major typo! :-[
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