Siding with democracy

The Washington Post - THE SLOW progress of democracy in Africa has been hindered by two bad bargains the continent`s leaders have made in recent years. In 2007, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki sought to remain in office even though exit polls showed he had lost an election to challenger Raila Odinga. After an eruption of tribal warfare, African leaders brokered a power-sharing deal in which Mr. Kibaki kept the presidency. A few months later, Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe similarly resorted to violence after he lost an election; once again the result was a regional accord that left him in office. Neither arrangement worked - and they provided a bad example to other African leaders.

In that context, African and international reaction to the crisis in the Ivory Coast has been... suite de l'article sur