Obama’s first-term Africa policy
Jibril Ture U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s January 2012 whirlwind trip to four West African countries in two days – Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Togo and Cape Verde – followed …
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Reactions to President Obama’s meeting with four African presidents
By Lou Sifa U.S. President Barack Obama on July 29 hosted four French-speaking West African presidents at the White House who, he said, have “shown extraordinary persistence in wanting to …
Challenges of democratic succession in Africa
BY LOU SIFA AND RAISSA GBEDJI On June 13, 2005, after a high-profile White House meeting with five Sub-Saharan African presidents, an upbeat President George W. Bush told a White …
What African heads of state expect from Obama’s second term
BY LISA FRENCH The re-election of President Obama was not greeted with the same excitement and the massive celebrations that followed his historic election four years ago, although what was …
From Pan-Africanism to O.A.U. to African Union
By John Mukendi Long before most African countries became independent in the early sixties, there was the Pan-African movement which sought to promote solidarity among Blacks worldwide, in a concerted …
How the whole world nearly failed to stop Gbagbo
By Jibril Ture Although he lost the Nov. 28 presidential election, former Cote d’Ivoire’s president, Laurent Gbagbo, desperately stuck to power and the whole world nearly failed to oust him. …
Profile of President Gbagbo, a resilient, controversial leader
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU Laurent Gbagbo was born on May 31, 1945 in Gagnoa, midwest Cote d’Ivoire. He started his secondary school education at the Gagnoa Seminary and later completed it …
Why ECOWAS could not restore peace in Cote d’Ivoire after the 2001 rebellion
BY RICHARD KUMBA West African leaders deployed an unprecedented diplomatic mechanism to save Côte d’Ivoire from self-destruction, after a mutiny rocked that country on September 19, 2002, killing 400 people …
The rise and fall of Laurent Gbagbo
Laurent Gbagbo, who was a lightweight politician until October 2000, owes his rise to the presidency that year to a man that some in Cote d’Ivoire believe has died in …
Cote d’Ivoire at a glance
The French-speaking West African country of Cote d’Ivoire was much in the news lately, arousing attention even within unexpected circles in the United States. In-keeping with our commitment to take …