Côte d’Ivoire: Forces behind the crisis and what’s at stake http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/71954

As Côte d’Ivoire’s political deadlock continues, Maurice Fahe discusses the country’s geostrategic importance for the West, the long-term role of foreign multinationals in the country, the political implications of ‘Ivoirité’ and the differences between the current crisis and that of 2000.