Thursday, January 27, 2011
Matt Heritage And Wrestle
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The head of state of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika, President of the African Union at its meeting Tuesday with Ivorian President Outgoing Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan. Bingu wa Mutharika visited Côte d'Ivoire to listen to the views of the two opposing camps on the outcome of presidential elections before the planned Pan-African summit this week in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). / Photo taken January 25 2011/REUTERS/Luc Gnago (c) Reuters
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The head of state of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika, President of the African Union (AU), visited Ivory Coast on Tuesday to hear the views the two camps before the summit scheduled Pan this week in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). "I think the problem will be resolved by the Ivorian population of this country," he has merely stated.
That same day, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has expressed his disagreement with the UN decision to recognize as legitimate president Alassane Ouattara.
He wishes, according to his spokesman, an investigation of the AU on the presidential election on November 28.
The Ivorian electoral commission, certified by the UN, said Alassane Ouattara won the second round of presidential elections. This result was overturned by the Constitutional Council, which gave Gbagbo the winner after invalidation of hundreds of thousands of ballots in areas favorable to Alassane Ouattara.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), European Union and the United States gave their support Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo asked to leave power, which the President Outgoing refused.
The official position of the AU is that Gbagbo must step aside for Alassane Ouattara.
unit within the organization to 53 members seems to crack before the Summit of Heads of State of the AU scheduled this week in Ethiopia.
After a meeting with Yoweri Museveni, South African President Jacob Zuma last week ruled that the results were announced in Côte d'Ivoire showed the "contradictions".
Angola, whose ambassador in Abidjan was the only one to attend the swearing in of Laurent Gbagbo, is also perceived as a weak link in African unity on the Cote d'Ivoire. As in Ghana, he said he would remain neutral in the crisis in its neighbor. David Lewis Boucey Bertrand and Jean-Loup Fievet for the French service
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