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THABO MBEKI : « Alassane Ouattara est un homme qui n’a ni foi en l’honneur ni parole d’honneur…

14 mars 2012 by Le Magazine de la Diaspora Ivoirienne et des Ami(e)s de la Côte d’Ivoire

2012-03-13 03:42:01 – THABO MBEKI : « Alassane Ouattara est un homme qui n’a ni foi en l’honneur ni parole d’honneur. Je serai toujours surpris de la distance qu’il est prêt à parcourir dans le seul but de contenter ceux qu’il y a seulement 50 ans mettaient son peuple dans les chaines de l’oppression.
Je me sens un peu responsable de la situation ivoirienne dans la mesure où c’est moi qui ai persuadé le Président Gbagbo à permettre à Ouattara d’être candidat. Je n’ai pas assez de mots pour vous dire le dégout que m’inspire cet homme. (AM : Cher Président, vous n’êtes pas le seul, chez Afrique-Monde il n’inspire que dégout et merde, au même titre que son mentor Paul Stéphane Nicolas de nagy bocsa sarkozy) Heureusement que la vie des hommes n’est qu’une petite étoile filante dans l’histoire du monde. La Cote d’Ivoire se retrouvera un jour. »
Par Amar toh Source : Ma Patrie – Carlson pour Afrique-Monde

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Thabo Mbeki rejette l’option militaire comme solution à la crise ivoirienne

5 janvier 2011 by Le Magazine de la Diaspora Ivoirienne et des Ami(e)s de la Côte d’Ivoire

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APA – Pre to ria (Afrique du Sud) L’an cien pré sident sud-afri cain, Thabo Mbeki a cri ti qué l’op tion mi li taire pré co ni sée comme une so lu tion à la crise ivoi rienne, es ti mant que les tenants de cette pro po si tion vont ainsi ac cep ter que des per sonnes soient tuées pour ins taller Alas sane Ouat ta ra, pro cla mé vain queur du scru tin pré si den tiel par la com mu nau té inter na tio nale.

L’uti li sa tion de la force pour rait pro vo quer un bain de sang en Côte d’Ivoire, a dit Mbeki, mer cre di, dans une in ter ven tion à la ra dio té lé vi sion pu blique sud-afri caine (SABC).

L’ex pré sident sud afri cain mé dia teur de l’Union afri caine (UA) avait ren con tré les deux pro ta go nistes de la crise ivoi rienne qui se dis putent la pré si dence, en vue de faire des propo si tions pour un éven tuel rè gle ment de ce conten tieux post élec to ral.

Les deux can di dats re ven diquent tous les deux la vic toire au se conde de la pré si den tielle ivoi rienne du 28 no vembre der nier, pro vo quant une im passe qui me nace la paix et la stabi li té du pays.

Mbeki a éga le ment ex pri mé son désac cord avec la me nace de la Com mu nau té éco nomique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’ouest (Ce deao) d’uti li ser la “force lé gi time” pour ré soudre cette crise.

« Je pense que c’est dan ge reux car à mon avis, le pro blème est que le pays est en train de glis ser vers la guerre ci vile. Toute in ter ven tion de cette na ture ne fe rait que dé clen cher la guerre ci vile », a es ti mé l’an cien di ri geant sud-afri cain.

La Ce deao, pré si dée par le chef de l’Etat ni gé rian, Jo na than Goo dluck et l’UA n’ont toujours pas réus si à convaincre Gbag bo à céder le pou voir à son rival Ouat ta ra, re con nu par la com mu nau té in ter na tio nale comme le vé ri table vain queur de la pré si den tielle.

Selon Thabo Mbeki, le rè gle ment po li tique reste la meilleure so lu tion au conflit en Côte d’Ivoire.

« Nous sommes d’avis que la seule ma nière de ré soudre ce conflit est d’aider les deux di rigeants à se re trou ver au tour d’une table pour s’en tendre sur une so lu tion po li tique. Quelle que soit la so lu tion, les deux di ri geants doivent la né go cier », a in di qué la SABC, ci tant M. Mbeki.

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Thabo Mbeki begins Ivory Coast political mission

5 décembre 2010 by Le Magazine de la Diaspora Ivoirienne et des Ami(e)s de la Côte d’Ivoire

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has arrived in Ivory Coast for the African Union to help mediate in a political crisis, diplomats say.

Laurent Gbagbo and opposition candidate Alassane Ouattara have both sworn themselves in after claiming victory in a presidential run-off.

Mr Ouattara was initially declared the winner but the result was overturned in the incumbent’s favour.

The AU has warned the crisis could have « incalculable consequences ».

In a statement, the organisation rejected « any attempt to create a fait accompli to undermine the electoral process and the will of the people ».

It called on all parties to « show the necessary restraint and to refrain from taking actions which will exacerbate an already fragile situation ».

Several countries and international organisations – including the US, UN, France and the IMF – have backed Mr Ouattara as the true winner of last Sunday’s run-off.

Conflict fear

Mr Mbeki arrived at Abidjan airport on Sunday morning, the first time that the country’s borders had been opened since the crisis blew up on Thursday.

When he was president of South Africa, Mr Mbeki helped to mediate a peace deal in Ivory Coast.

The fear is that if he fails to find a way out, rebel groups in the north who support Mr Ouattara will take up arms in protest.

Mr Ouattara was declared the winner on Thursday by Ivory Coast’s Election Commission, but on Friday its ruling was overturned by the Constitutional Council, which is led by an ally of the incumbent, Mr Gbagbo.

Mr Gbagbo, who has the backing of the head of the country’s armed forces, was sworn in for a third term in office at the presidential palace on Friday afternoon.

He repeated the accusations of fraud that had led the council to discount large number of ballots in the north, where Mr Ouattara’s support is strongest.

« You think that you can cheat, stuff ballot boxes and intimidate voters and that the other side won’t see what is going on, » Mr Gbagbo said.

He also said he had noted « serious cases of interference » in recent days, referring to international disapproval of his return to power.

« We didn’t ask anyone to come and run our country. Our sovereignty is something I am going to defend, » he said.

‘Brief episode’

But within hours, Mr Ouattara, a former prime minister from the predominantly Muslim north of the country, was himself sworn in, at an Abidjan hotel guarded by UN peacekeepers.

He said the election had been « historic » and that he was proud of it, but that the last few days had been « difficult ».

« But it’s just a brief episode – I want to tell you that Ivory Coast is now in good hands, » he said.

Mr Ouattara immediately re-appointed Guillaume Soro as his prime minister. Mr Soro had tendered his resignation in Mr Gbagbo’s administration just hours earlier.

Mr Soro – who is the head of the New Forces rebels in the north – has warned that overturning the results threatens to derail attempts to stabilise and reunify the country after the 2002 civil war.

The political crisis has led to protests on the streets of the country’s main city of Abidjan, with opposition supporters saying Mr Gbagbo’s inauguration amounts to a coup d’etat.

At least four people have been killed in election-related clashes in Abidjan this week.

Ivory Coast has closed its borders and stopped broadcasts of international news media into the country. An overnight curfew remains in place.

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Mbeki in Ivory Coast for a mediation

5 décembre 2010 by Le Magazine de la Diaspora Ivoirienne et des Ami(e)s de la Côte d’Ivoire

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Ivory Coast today to mediate in a political crisis sparked by a disputed election that has seen two rival leaders laying claim to the presidency.

Laurent Gbagbo, 65, was sworn in as president at a ceremony at the presidential palace yesterday after the Constitutional Council declared him the winner of Nov. 28 elections. Hours later, Alassane Ouattara said he had taken the oath of office, following a Dec. 2 announcement by the Electoral Commission that he won 54.1 percent of the vote.

Mbeki flew in to the commercial capital Abidjan earlier this morning, according to Alcide Djedje, Gbagbo’s diplomatic counselor, who is also Ivory Coast’s ambassador at the United Nations. “Meetings are scheduled today with both candidates,” Djedje said in a telephone interview.

The election was meant to unite the world’s top cocoa grower, which has been divided into a rebel-held north and government-controlled south since a 2002 uprising. The dispute over the results is escalating violence that left several dead during the campaign, with Ouattara supporters taking to the streets in protest.

The UN, United States and European Union have sided with Ouattara, while the leaders of the armed forces in the former French colony have backed the incumbent Gbagbo.

The African Union appointed Mbeki to lead an emergency mission to Ivory Coast “to facilitate the rapid and peaceful conclusion of the electoral process and the efforts to find a way out of the crisis.” Mbeki, who was ousted as South African president in 2008, led previous mediation efforts during the uprising and is currently spearheading efforts to bring an end to conflict in Sudan.

Appeal for Reason

“We trust the African Union and the international community,” Anne Ouloto, Ouattara’s spokeswoman, said in a telephone interview. “They can’t recognize Alassane Ouattara as the new president of Ivory Coast and negotiate with Laurent Gbagbo. We hope they are here to make Laurent Gbagbo see reason.”

Ouattara supporters used tables and pieces of wood to barricade streets and set car tires afire in the Abidjan suburb of Treichville yesterday. Police dressed in riot gear fired shots into the air to disperse the crowd and doused the fires with buckets of water.

Clashes between the rival camps have claimed the lives of 18 people in Abidjan alone since last night, Amadou Coulibaly, a spokesman for Ouattara’s party, said late yesterday.

“It’s going to be a rough ride in the Ivory Coast,” Kissy Agyeman-Togobo, a partner at Songhai Advisory LLP, which serves clients interested in Africa, said by telephone from London late yesterday. “There is a very, very real threat of conflict. I think it will be difficult for Gbagbo to hang on.”

Military Lockdown

The army has sealed off all the country’s borders until further notice, the military said in a statement read out on state television. Foreign television and radio signals have been jammed indefinitely, the National Broadcasting Council said in a separate statement.

Ivory Coast’s growth has averaged 1.1 percent in the eight years since the conflict started as the cocoa-dependent country missed out on the wave of foreign investment in Africa from nations such as China. Gbagbo’s supporters hold Ouattara, 68, responsible for the revolt in 2002, a charge he denies.

Cocoa for March delivery climbed $67, or 2.3 percent, to 2,935 pounds in New York yesterday after jumping 4 percent the day before.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net.

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