The Milosevic Effect.

                The flight of General Guei and the assumption of the Presidency
by
                Laurent Gbagbo,solves one problem but creates several new ones.
                The chasing of Guei from power in a courageous display of people
                power with Guei's guards firing live ammunition into crowds of
                protesters is celebrated as an African reenactment of the
overthrow
                of Slobodan Milosevic.
                The main problem is what to do about the politicians excluded
from
                the polls and their call for fresh elections. This is the
primary cause
                of the tension that prevails in Cote D'Ivoire with the religious
dimension
                added to it and I believe there may be an ethic under tone,
which in my
                opinion, is not pronounced.
                To address the problem,there should be fresh elections with all
eligible
                parties participating to give legitimacy to whoever wins.
                Political and civic education should also be conducted to raise
he level
                of awareness of the people that despite our
political,religious,and ethnic
                differences,they are fighting the same cause for the betterment
of Cote
                d'Ivoire and hence Africa.

                Beran


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                                COTE D'IVOIRE: THE END AND THE BEGINNING
                                The developments in Cote D'Ivoire have lessons
for countries in
                Africa in
                                particular and the World in general.
                                The fundamental lesson to draw is that where a
people know what
                they want
                                and are organised to fight for it no force on
earth will be able
                to block
                                them from achieving success. However, if short
term solutions
                are sought for
                                long term problems immediate success is  bound
to be accompanied
                by new
                                complications. This is how matters stand in Cote
D'Ivoire.
                                At first the people had assumed that the problem
was general
                Guei. Now that
                                he is gone tension still remains in Cote
D'Ivoire. What is
                responsible for
                                this tension? How is it to be addressed?



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