Gen. Guei gains another on
Bedie ECOWAS Secretary General Lansana
Kouyate has said that since things were returning to
"normal", Guei seems to have been quickly accepted by the
Ivorian people. Kouyate added: "Things were almost back to
normal in two or three days." He said that this was unlike
the case with Sierra Leone's military coup.
Cote
d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) new strongman General Robert Guei has
gained another advantage, especially, over those he removed
from office following the decision of the neighboring
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leaders
to reject the use of military intervention to reverse his
coup of December 24, 1999.
ECOWAS
calls for June 2000 elections
The Economic Community of
West African States leaders have demanded that the military
regime set up a transition government towards a free
parliamentary and presidential elections by June 2000. They
stated the elections must be "open to all political parties,
without exception", and "strongly condemns (the) coup." The
bloody stain of military coup, on Friday December 24, 1999,
sullied the once unique history of democratic rule in the
beautiful and historically democratic, French-speaking west
African country of Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) by General
Robert Guei (inset). USAfricaonline
report
and
commentary.
The
coup in Cote d'Ivoire and its implications for
democracy
in Africa.
By Chido Nwangwu
Coup
in Cote d'Ivoire has been in the waiting.
By Tom Kamara
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