At 14:39 10/1/2002 -0800, BLT wrote:
At 09:12 PM 10/1/02 + Larry Jackson favored us with:
I think in this case it might be more that the US is in the habit
of protecting its citizens wherever they are in the world, and
some young citizens were in danger. So the US went to the Ivory
Coast
From: Marc A. Schindler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Culturally speaking, the further north you go the more Moslems there are. Bouaké, the
main city in
northern Cote d'Ivoire is in an area with a lot of Muslims, and fundamentalists
there are trying to foment a secessionist revolt.
Sorry, I thought I made that clear. The French government has the responsibility for
Cote d'Ivoire's military defence. Yam'o didn't have to ask for help, it would have
been automatic.
Okay, but how did the US get in? In another post you mentioned international law.
Are you saying that
How is it okay for France and the United States to send troops into the Ivory Coast?
Did the government of the Ivory Coast invite them? If so, I've never heard it
discussed on any news report. Marc?
= Mark Gregson [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
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Yes, they were invited in by the government. What's happening is that, in common with
most of the countries in West Africa (notably Nigeria, but also Benin, Togo, Ghana )
Cote d'Ivoire (aka Ivory Coast) is
comprised of five geographic regions: a coastal region, often deltas of rivers, like
The legal, or recognized, government, based in Yamoussoukro (an
artificial
capital like Ottawa, Canberra and Ajuba -- the biggest city is Abidjan,
on the coast), officially asked for French and US help.
Mark:
Okay, if you say so. But none of your links gave any indication that the
Ivory
At 09:12 PM 10/1/02 + Larry Jackson favored us with:
I think in this case it might be more that the US is in the habit
of protecting its citizens wherever they are in the world, and
some young citizens were in danger. So the US went to the Ivory
Coast to get them. The French helped,
Here's the website of their embassy in Ottawa:
http://www.isa-africa.com/AmbCiCa/ (you can probably find their embassy's
website in Washington via www.uncle-sam.com)
The Canadian site was pretty sparse -- just information about the country, no
news. So I tried Canadian Foreign Affairs -- their
