As Côte d’Ivoire takes a major step towards ensuring accountability for grave crimes by joining the International Criminal Court (ICC), Chad is once again failing to live up to its obligations as a member of the Court by hosting fugitive

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Songhai Advisory LLP is a bespoke business intelligence consultancy providing critical insight on market opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa. The storm that was Côte d’Ivoire’s turbulent post-election crisis- which brought about the death of over three thousand people and the internal

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Ouattara v Gbagbo. Cote d’Ivoire’s recent post-election problems began in the wake of the November 2010 presidential polls. After the election commission initially gave victory to the opposition candidate, Alassane Ouattara, a crooked Constitutional Council overturned the result in favour

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Ivory Coast – House of Lords, Written answers and statements, 20 June 2011 Lord Chidgey (Liberal Democrat) To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, in the light of continuing instability in the Ivory Coast and the continuing occupation of police stations

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AfricaFocus Bulletin Jun 10, 2011 (110610) (Reposted from sources cited below) Editor’s Note “Between May 13 and 25, Human Rights Watch interviewed 132 victims and witnesses to violence by both sides during the battle for Abidjan and in the weeks

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By Véronique Tadjo* The history of Côte d’Ivoire is marked internally by successive ethnic dominations. In 1960, following the end of colonisation by France, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who spearheaded independence, further established his political influence by claiming royal legitimacy. He was

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By Prof Richard Banegas During the Franco-African summit in Nice in 2010, president Sarkozy affirmed that there would be no more French military interventions in Africa. Several months later, however, harshly criticised for his ministers’ sympathy with the regimes in

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Bonapartism in built-up shoes So the ‘cheese-eating surrender monkeys’ have suddenly gone on the war path. The French (and British) have been attacked in Africa for their part in the ‘grand design to re-colonise’ the continent. That was an accusation

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The man Ivorian Presidents love to hate By Daniel Balint-Kurti Ivory Coast, the one-time poster boy of West Africa, has seen its long-drawn-out crisis deepen since the end of last year. When the incumbent president, Laurent Gbagbo, was defeated in

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Kenya PM Raila Odinga meets Laurent Gbagbo to discuss solutions to Cote d’Ivoire’s political paralysis In Tunisia, street protests; in Ivory Coast, a call for a general strike meets limited success. In one country, a long-time president leaves power, in

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