The Madness of ECOWAS: An armed attack against Code d'Ivoire by other West African countries is an automatic guarantee for the First All African War with a frightsome possibility of ethnic cleansing, genocide and refugees all over Africa. This is because there are millions of Nigerians, Ghanaians, Burkinabe, Guineans, Senegalese etc living in the Cote d'Ivoire and vice versa. These innocent folks open themselves to legitimate retaliatory attacks from Ivoirians. Only inane leaders can allow themselves to be manipulated by the even more dastardly France...to even contemplate an armed attack against Cote d'Ivoire. All of this to install a Burkinabe-IMF-French stooge called Quattara, who did not even win the Ivoirian elections, as president of Cote d'Ivoire.
Futhermore there is no UN Resolution that authorises this attack
But the main issue is this; the US and Britain misused the UN in their MAD War againt Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Now under-developed France is trying same against Gbagbo and the Cote d'Ivoire.

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[Jovita Nsoh]

"Futhermore there is no UN Resolution that authorises this attack" Wrong, wrong, wrong. ECOWAS is a body with its own standing resolutions. Member states MUST abide by ECOWAS resolutions. Ivory Coast is a signatory and hence are bound by ECOWAS resolutions. This would not be the first time something like this is happening. On 7 August 1990, the ECOWAS Standing Mediation Committee established a Military Observer Group (ECOMOG), to help resolve an armed internal conflict which had broken out in Liberia the previous year. This was not the first time either that an African multinational force had been deployed on the continent. In 1981, the Organisation of African Union (OAU) Pan-African Peacekeeping Force in Chad was established as a response to the civil war in that country.

ECOWAS deployed ECOMOG forces later on to control conflict in other cases:
1997 — Sierra Leone, to stop the RUF rebellion.
1999 — Guinea-Bissau
In 2001, ECOWAS planned to deploy 1,700 troops along the Guinea–Liberia border to stop guerrilla infiltration by fighters opposed to the new post-1998 election government. However, fighting between Charles Taylor's new government and the new LURD rebel movement, plus a lack of funding, meant no force was actually ever deployed.
In 2003 ECOWAS, under pressure from the United States, launched a similar mission named ECOMIL to halt the occupation of Monrovia by rebel forces as peace efforts were ongoing, during the Second Liberian Civil War. Always intended as an interim force, it was quickly succeeded by the United Nations mission UNMIL.
Within Africa, ECOMOG represented the first credible attempt at a regional security initiative since the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) tried to established an 'Inter-African Force' to intervene in Chad in 1981.
ECOMOG's role is being slowly taken on by the nascent African Union's Peace and Security Council's African Standby Force. The ECOWAS component of the ASF is a proposed standby task force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECOMOG

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