Different countries, different responses.

[LiberalAndProud]

http://www.sify.com/news/commandos-attack-ivory-coast-police-station-news-international-lduq4eagjej.html
Abidjan, Ivory Coast's biggest city, has seen daily battles between the supporters of each man claiming to be president for weeks, leaving hundreds dead. Fighting was initially confined to pro-Ouattara neighborhoods but has now spread across the city, breaking out in different locations each day.

"The situation is very serious there for the plight of civilians," said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, speaking in Dakar, Senegal, on Wednesday. "My staff are unable to visit certain sites ... they went to meet with victims where four children were killed and they had to literally run out from there because they then were threatened in return. The situation is grave."

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011\03\16\story_16-3-2011_pg4_6

France says Ivory Coast sanctions will strangle Gbagbo

PARIS: Sanctions will slowly but surely break Laurent Gbagbo’s grip on Ivory Coast and France will do what it can to ensure Alassane Ouattara takes his rightful place as president, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Tuesday.

“Financial sanctions don’t work in 15 days. They work over months,” Juppe told France’s Europe 1 radio. “It’s clear today that Gbagbo is gradually being strangled.” “We haven’t abandoned him (Ouattara),” Juppe said as he prepared to host a second day of talks between Group of Eight foreign ministers that mainly focused on Libya. “We’ve never stopped saying that we don’t want Gbagbo, that he is not legitimate and that Ouattara is the only legal and legitimate president,” Juppe said.

[spooked911]

1. gee, whatever could Libya have that Ivory Coast doesn't?

I guess Ivory Coast has cocoa, but supplies of that probably aren't as critical

[LiberalAndProud]

2. UN must do more to protect Ivorian civilians: Ouattara camp

(AFP) – 1 hour ago

ABIDJAN — A spokesman for Ivory Coast's internationally recognised president Alassane Ouattara on Sunday urged the UN to take stronger action to protect civilians caught up in political violence.

"The UN must take action to free the Ivory Coast and give meaning to the (UN) certification of the elections. President Ouattara cannot govern. He must be given the means to govern," his spokeswoman Anne Ouloto told AFP.

Strongman Laurent Gbagbo, who has refused to step down since November elections, "is trying to set a trap for President Ouattara, that of civil war. But President Ouattara does not want to fall into that trap," Ouloto said.

She said the 10,000-strong UN mission in the country known as UNOCI "has the human and logistical capacity to protect civilians. We ask the UN to move fast, the people are in danger. It must take its responsibilities."

"We can't understand that the international community has mobilised for Libya and can't take firm decisions on the Ivory Coast. It must be done immediately, it is a question of life or death," she added.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jy9lqTZ1ZaP3dbso4yFQX-rIXTNA?docId=CNG.26f4275431f3c791c245845a136980cf.721