RAO has expressed his opinion on the crisis so has the AU which recognises Ouattara as the democratically elected president and has indeed gone ahead to suspend Ivory Coast until Gbagbo relinquishes power!What is this crap about bias?UN,ECOWAS,EU and the whole world recognises the true winner of the poll.Why should RAO's opinion be taken any different?

Well if that be so, then he can only be anything else but a MEDIATOR!!

May be an "UNDERWRITER"!!!


West African leaders seem to be ahead of the game:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/..._on_re_af/af_ivory_coast

wewe umepotea njia.

Ati tribalism!!!
Watu wagonjwa nini!!

Simple logic - If you have taken a position on a matter, you can not be a mediator between the two warring sides!

If you have any integrity, you ought to opt out of any appointment to abitriate on the matter.

But then, who are we talking about!!!
Integrity is a foreign word!

This is a case where the appointing authority has a position and has stated it!!!!!

I just thought the appointing authority had already made a stand on what it wants... not mediation on 50/50 we dont know who won, but mediation on a safe exit for 'Drogbas uncle'

Its all Raila bashing all over again (In my opinion RAO and Equity get that alot around here)

Nways Sawa mzee
mimi naenda kung'oa reli or Whatever it is that makes you sleep soundly at night...


thanks also for benevolently offering very sober guidance and advice.. i needed it.

http://tinyurl.com/2fqracr



Mediation is a nice way of making the warring parties satisfied with whatever percentage of portion they have 'agreed' upon. Mediation doesn't always have to mean impartiality or 50/50 (Annan negotiated a 70/30 for us)

The A.U for semantics sake should have just used "Head interceder" if such a word exists to help people understand the role of Raila

PEACE

RAO has promised Gbagbo protection if if steps down. Gbagbo is boxed in from all sides.

Sometimes to get somebody to seat on the negotiating table you go in with a 'gun and a kind word'..
Otherwise for these African leaders if you tell them,"yes you have won but please share power with your rival" you will end up nowhere
Its only when RAO n MK were properly squeezed that things moved..

SimonKabz.. yap that is true..When the economy was booming in the 70's they 'natives' invited immigrant workers to an extent that they are no longer immigrants. its a whole new generation and they have their base in the North...

they have the numbers as well

They might as well have invited Drogba since both him and Raila speaks incoherently and speaks out of either frustration or excitement!

I'm not a political expert but why is it that the US, UN, EU and AU are threatening to use military action against Mr Gbagbo yet they never do the same elsewhere around the World whenever we have disputed elections??? I think military intervention would only reignite Civil war. Don't also forget that this could very easily turn into a battle between Christians and Muslims.

"The stakes are extremely high. Decades of Muslim mass immigration has tipped the demographic balance so that Ivory Coast -- officially around one third Muslim -- is now actually majority Muslim with immigrants from Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea comprising up to 40 percent of the population. Ivory Coast's non-Muslims are traumatised, fearing that their homeland -- once a strategic Christian centre -- is about to come under the political domination of Muslims. War threatens.
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