Tag: Ivory Coast
Farmers in Ivory Coast, the source of 45 percent of the world’s cocoa beans, battle climate change and market inequality.
President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo who had been displaced as a result of the French intervention appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Hague on December 5… The countries recently enthusiastic about international justice – especially the African countries which naively expected justice from “the white people's Court” and rushed to ratify and enact the ICC statute – will likely draw a serious lesson from the Gbagbo case…
While the war against Libya is raging, another aggression possibly marking a new phase in the history of the international law is beginning to unfold. On April 5, the French forces launched an offensive supposed to lead to the seizure of Ivory Coast's legitimate president Laurent Gbagbo… Notably, in the Ivory Coast – for the first time since 1961, the year Belgian troops under the UN flag killed Patrice Lumumba in Congo – the UN “peacekeepers” openly took a role in toppling a legitimate leader of a sovereign country…
Most western reporters claim that President Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d’Ivoire lost the run-off and therefore the presidential election in his republic in December 2010, but I beg to differ. I insist that he did not lose, nor did he refuse to hand over power to his rival Alassane Ouattara… But… the United Nations, the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the European Union, the United States and France “chose” Ouattara. And the decision, which is illegal by the Côte d’Ivoire law provisions, initiated a bloody conflict…