Liberia: Averting Regional Rebel Resurgence - A Must for Liberia, Ivory Coast

editorial

LIBERIA AND IVORY COAST HAVE both had bouts of civil unrests, civil war and chaos.

CIVIL CONFLICT in the Ivory Coast which lasted from September 19, 2002 - March 4, 2007 was triggered by a law quickly drafted by the government and approved in a referendum immediately before the elections of 2000 which required both parents of a presidential candidate to be born within Ivory Coast. This excluded the northern presidential candidate Alassane Ouattara from the race.

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