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by jpatokal
4174 days ago
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Uhh, it's nowhere near that simple. Despite Gbagbo the incumbent doing everything he could to handicap Ouattara, Ouattara was announced as the winner with 54.1% of the vote. The next day, Gbagbo then "cancelled" the results from seven regions, which gave him 51.45% of the vote and allowed him to claim victory. Unsurprisingly Ouattara (and the international community in general) did not buy this, and civil war ensued. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_Ivorian_crisis And while Ouattara's troops weren't angels, neither were Gbagbo's, which is why he's at the International Criminal Court now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Gbagbo#Arrest_and_tran... |
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