Do they actually have a government? :-( My understanding is that this was
OK'ed (at a minimum) by the IC gov't. I know a person from this country,
and he says it is absolutely lovely! I hope they don't turn it into another
Beirut.
Jon
Mark Gregson opined:
>
> How is it okay for France and t
At 11:10 PM 10/1/02 +0800 Mark Gregson favored us with:
>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?
Some nations can go anywhere they
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
sout
> 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.
Okay, if you say so. But none of your links gave any indication that the Ivory C
> 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
Call their embassy in D.C. John's not worried about it because he assumes
the US is meddling. Marc and I already know, but didn't care enough to save
the source of the info. No one else apparently is worried about it, being
more concerned about the machinations going on in NJ to subvert the law
Mark Gregson wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Okay, if you say so. But none of your links gave any i
Mark Gregson:
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?
John Redelfs:
Some nations can go anywhere they please and do whatever they
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, I
> In fact it was part of what was known as French Equatorial Africa, which was a
>regional common market based on the CFA Franc (Communauté des francs afriques).
Not that it's a big deal, but when you do things from memory you make mistakes. at
least, I do. Côte d'Ivoire wasn't part of FEA, alt
Dan R Allen wrote:
> > 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:
Ironically, he asked the same thing. Sorry if it
Larry Jackson wrote:
> Mark Gregson:
>
> 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?
>
> John Redelfs:
>
> Some nations can go anyw
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 l
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
> 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 th
In India they get along *relatively well*. Most of the problems there are actually
instigated by Hindu nationalists, not Muslims. Muslims are a minority in India, but
given India's
size it actually works out that it's the world's largest Muslim country, which is kind
of weird.
Let's see -- Ind
Mark Gregson wrote:
>
> > 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
> 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.
==
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