Sidi,

I hope that all of this is not just a front while Gbagbo is still
manipulating his followers to continue to agitate. All he has done from the
start of this mess shows a pattern of deviousness every time he has
supposedly accepted a proposal.
I think if his game playing continues, he will loose a lot more than what he
has already lost in the long run, while the side effects of violence will be
a diservice to Ivory Coast.

Jabou

In a message dated 1/26/03 1:41:48 PM Central Standard Time,
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>
> It is this perception that the prinicpal players in the CI conflict have
> of Gbagbo even before the outbreak of hostilities which has been working
> against him.
>
> IMO, he could have brokered his own peace deal immediately following the
> Nation Reconcilation Conference in 2001 chaired by Seydou Diarra, the man
> appointed in Paris to head a transition government comprising of all
> parties in the conflict. Had he seized that opportunity, he could have
> retained all of his powers as President which as you know, under the new
> arrangement, he has ceeded a significant part to the new Prime Minister.
> He appears to have also lost the Defence and Interior portfolios to the
> rebel groups.  The wolof saying sums up Gbagbo's predicament: Niitu beh
> lakaleh.
>
> Sidi Sanneh

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