What is amazing is that once the IMF guy was installed the coverage nearly dropped of a cliff.
"Ivory Coast factions wage heavy fighting" April 21, 2011|Associated Press
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Nine days after former president Laurent Gbagbo was captured, his die-hard forces were still battling troops of Ivory Coast’s democratically elected president yesterday in an Abidjan neighborhood, leaving civilians in the crossfire.
I was led to believe the conflict was over.
See: Hitler Alive in Africa
While shelling shook homes in the Yopougon suburb, the rest of Ivory Coast’s commercial capital tried to inch back to normality.
Yes, the globalists got their man in so let's get things back to normal.
Traffic was returning and shops were reopening, though there were shortages of many things — including money. Banks have not reopened, and officials were trying to get currency from the West African regional bank in Senegal.
William Dufourcq of Action Against Hunger said the fighting was so intense in Yopougon that his French charity could not get in to deliver water to around 4,000 people who have sought shelter at a church there. A resident of the sprawling suburb said yesterday that troops loyal to elected President Alassane Ouattara were lobbing shells into the neighborhood and pro-Gbagbo civilian supporters were trying to get out.
Also see: Sunday Globe Special: Ivory Coast War Crimes
Those are the "good" guys, readers.
Ghana said yesterday that it evacuated its diplomats.
A few government workers returned to work this week, and more joined them yesterday. Many buildings, including Parliament, have been looted.
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"Ivorian warlords battle in Abidjan" April 26, 2011|Associated Press
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Volleys of gunshots erupted again in Abidjan yesterday as a yearsold feud between rival warlords came to a head, threatening Ivory Coast’s fragile peace.
It is unclear if technocrat President Alassane Ouattara can control any of the six warlords who helped install him in power by ousting the arrested former strongman Laurent Gbagbo.
Oh, the U.N. used WAR CRIMINAL WAR LORDS to get what they want!!
So when do the war crimes charges come?
The latest fighting is between the two men who fomented the 2002 rebellion that divided the country between the rebel-held north and government run-south — two-time coup plotter Ibrahim “IB’’ Coulibaly and Defense Minister Guillaume Soro, who is also prime minister....
In 2004, the two men waged bloody battles for leadership in the central city of Bouake. Soro won and Coulibaly was forced into exile. Now there are fears their feud could destabilize Abidjan, the commercial capital and the West African nation’s biggest city where one-third of the 15 million people live.
Ouattara on Friday declared that the war for Abidjan ended with Gbagbo’s arrest April 11. He ordered Soro’s troops to return to their barracks elsewhere in the country and he ordered Coulibaly to disarm or have his weapons taken.
And just how is he expecting that to happen?
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Related: Ivorian warlord says he will disarm
That was before.
