Posts Tagged ‘ivory coast’
Now on the calendar: “Ivory Coast on the Brink,” DC
At the Brookings Institution, March 22, 4:30-6:00 p.m. RSVP here. While the eyes of the world have been focused on the political and humanitarian struggles in North Africa, Sudan, and Japan, a significant crisis has developed in the Ivory Coast. Since the disputed presidential elections in November, escalating conflict has forced hundreds of thousands to [...]
Cote d’Ivoire and the linguistic roulette of mass atrocity
My use of the word genocide on Cote d’Ivoire has attracted some interest and a few hearty objections. Thankfully, I think there’s a better led and curated conversation about the country and a variety likely scenarios on other blogs (try here and here). The responses to my post and the thinking they inspired make me [...]
Why we should be worried about genocide in Cote d’Ivoire
Cote d’Ivoire is going through an ugly time, and today was an especially ugly day. The UN thinks the incumbent president is hiding evidence of a massacre; the incumbent president’s followers are threatening to overrun a hotel where their political opposition is based; and the UN’s special advisers on genocide prevention and the responsibility to [...]
Today in “diplomats who didn’t answer the question”
US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice’s statement and q&a at the Security Council stakeout: REPORTER: Madame Ambassador, just one follow up, there has been a lot of talk about this possibly turning into renewed civil war, and we have seen this standoff now dragging on for several days. How concerned is the United States [...]
A look at loving and hating the French in Africa
Kudos to Adam Nossiter, the New York Times’ man in Dakar, for today’s piece on mixed feelings about the French across Francophone Africa. (He even pulled it off without mentioning Rwanda, whose relationship with France is so troubled it skews the curve.) France is often seen as quietly backing, well, the bad guys — Mobutu [...]
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