La Cote d'Ivoire 
I do not know if you feel concerned by what is happening in this remote African country, in any case, you've probably got wind of what was happening the territory.
This is very scary is that the country has experienced a little calendar in the 2000s, risk relapse into the horrors of war.
We can not do much, nor indeed the poor voters who waver on one side or the other.
I wondered about the impact of international affairs of a country, and especially the African continent. Knowing that European countries were the settlers and the U.S. now become neo settlers.
And then I came across an article published on the website of the World:
I would copy / paste from that article that I found really good.
Take care of yourself.
Hocine and pank
Article World of 3/01/11
The UN recolonise Africa
Poor Africa, yesterday, he imposed his dictators today, he chooses his "Democrats". The rappers, these new Prévert time just invented a neologism which is a rage across the continent: démocrature. Listen, this hybrid system (the face of democracy, the body of the evil dictatorship) who has a knack for unleashing the passions and add to the confusion.
Who won the elections in Côte d'Ivoire, which has lost in Guinea? The question that seems to engulf the universe has no meaning in the suburbs of Conakry and Abidjan, where good Year after year, political life will never be a single plan, famine, and one law: "anything that is not compulsory is forbidden", to quote the famous words of Leon Campo. There, we prefer to experience the bad elections to civil wars well successful. Better yet Bokassa and Mobutu that the problems of Liberia or Sierra Leone! The human animal becomes accustomed to the hell of tyranny, and certainly not the massacres in Rwanda!
But the demons of hatred and violence haunt again Côte d'Ivoire. As in 2000, the country will be cut in half, it will burn like a straw, nothing can prevent it. The fault to whom? The world and first and foremost to the renowned international community is never better in his role that when she rekindles the fire it is supposed to extinguish.
Formally, this "thing" behind which lie the large claws of the United States and the European Union does not weigh more than the weight of an arbitrator. Its role is restricted to prevent conflicts and to propose a negotiated solution when they are unavoidable. No exceptional circumstances allows it to extend beyond that context. At least that's believed that the neophytes, wizards of diplomacy, they never short of arguments to justify the unjustifiable.
Let's be clear: the UN does not decide who is elected and who is not at the head of a country (the Ivory Coast has little in this case). Doing so, it oversteps its rights, what happens to him more and more. At that point behind the muffled language of its diplomats, there are rumors of colonial boots. From the way Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy and Ban Ki-moon addresses the poor Laurent Gbagbo, is believed to review Gosier-d'Oiseau (famous character from the old negro and the medal, a novel by the Cameroonian Ferdinand Oyono) sweating under his helmet chewed him out hourly his negroes on a plantation of Ubangi-Shari.
We do not support Laurent Gbagbo, we simply recall a principle. Moreover, the plague of Abidjan does not need our support: the arrogance of the chancery and the hysteria of the media work for him. The demonization of which is the subject eventually make it attractive in the eyes of his worst critics. "A force to throw a frog further away, you end up thrown into a pond," said a Fulani proverb ...
We do not dispute either the election of Alassane Ouattara (we are even convinced that psychologically and technically, it is better equipped than any of its competitors to govern). We are simply saying that the role of the international community is not to take partisan positions and to spread even more intemperate remarks in a situation as explosive as that of Côte d'Ivoire. Why the challenge and the threat of the gun where discretion, cunning, caution and tact short, the art of diplomacy would have sufficed?
We will not learn to geopoliticians business that Côte d'Ivoire is the cornerstone of the sub-region and if it sinks, it may lead to its neighbors, while attempting a perilous Guinea democratic experience and that Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has already its sanctuaries in Burkina Faso and Mali. The situation seems all the worrying that hangs over the region an "unspoken" Tribal ominous for the future: all but one power in Dyula Abidjan anything but a Fulani ruling in Conakry.
Côte d'Ivoire she deserves to burn for statistical purposes or for the sake of Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara? No, definitely not!
Bédié, Laurent Gbagbo, Alassane Ouattara, which is the difference? They form the trio of evil that has ruined the country of Houphouet-Boigny. A Bedie, the poison of the Ivorian, Ouattara, the secession, Gbagbo to that of seizing power. Each of these bosses showed how much he was willing to sacrifice his country for the benefit of his personal power. From this point of view, they are not exceptional.
Almost all African heads of state came to power following a bloody coup or an election rigged. An unwritten law allows anyone to kill, steal and cheat to gain power. Novelty, it is the "scruples" with which the great of this world watching this. Congo, Rwanda, Somalia, so far they have encouraged electoral rigging and coups and closed their eyes to the worst atrocities to suit their interests. And now these gentlemen are suddenly seized with an excess of moods!
Well, they have become as virtuous as they claim, why do not they go rummaging in the kitchen election of Burkina Faso, Tunisia or Egypt? How safe are the presidential dynasties Gabon and Togo are out of the truth of the ballot box? Would they have fared well if they were from Iran, Burma or China?
This hullabaloo is about Ouattara is such that it becomes suspect. That would save the international community, at the end: Côte d'Ivoire or any of his proteges? Ouattara and Gbagbo are wolves-twins of Ivorian politics: even complexion, even predatory smile, even electoral weight (one controlling the Electoral Commission and the other Supreme Court). There is however a difference between them in size: the address book. In the petty and corrupt world of ours, no need to spell, then this toy is enough to open the most secret of sesame.
Former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ouattara is at the heart of the complex network that governs this world so that modest history teacher, Gbagbo, apart from a brief exile in Paris, has never left home him. This little detail then explains better than while (long verses on democracy for example) why a simple African election has taken a global dimension. The global village is actually there: the world of friends and villains! And its laws apply everywhere as well as in Côte d'Ivoire in neighboring Guinea where, Alpha Conde, the president "elected" is a friend of African presidents and an old frequenter of Parisian departments.
"I do not see me fail this election", said the new president of Guinea after the first round when he was a backlog of nearly 25 points over its competitor. He did not say so: the election was extended five months, while no doubt that the "good" candidate is ready with the key, the burning of the Independent National Electoral Commission, theft of computer files, all followed by a veritable ethnic cleansing. There was no investigation and the supercilious jury of the international community found nothing objectionable. As if to confirm what everyone already knew: to be elected in Africa, no need to wet the shirt. With a little luck and some well placed friends in the UN, the White House, at the Elysee Palace or at the Quai d'Orsay, you're sure to spend even 18%.
Monénembo Tierno, Guinean writer, Renaudot Prize 2008 for "The King of Kahel" (Seuil)
Article published in the edition of 04.01.11
