Côte d'Ivoire: Descent into hell http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/72352

‘The fog of war clouds everything for the moment; it's impossible to tell who is responsible for what -- and against whom. But it's important to look at all sides of the fighting, because when the dust settles, Cote d'Ivoire is going to be torn apart.’

African solutions for Côte d’Ivoire: The deception of ‘no solution’  http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/72293

Despite Africa's intention to empower its continental and regional organisations, the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States have failed to propose a determined solution for the post-electoral crisis in Côte d’Ivoire, writes Tiago Faia. Instead the prospect of a new civil war looms on the Ivoirian horizon.