MEDIA INTERVIEW:
USAfrica’s Publisher CHIDO NWANGWU will be live Wednesday Jan 5, 2011, on New York’s morning news show on WWRL hosted by the legendary broadcast journalist Mark Riley, at 7.05am EST, 6.05am Houston/CST, to offer insights to the presidential election crises and breaking news in the west African country of Ivory Coast/Cote d’Ivoire.
Chido, recently profiled on CNN for multimedia leadership and excellence, is a leading specialist on African and American public policy issues of news value, terrorism and threat analyses, democracy and new technologies, based in the U.S. www.USAfricaonline.com/chido.html
E-mail: Chido@USAfricaonline.com 1-832-45-CHIDO (24436)
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Violent twists: Defiant Gbagbo orders, UN and French groups out of Ivory Coast; alternative forces formed by opposition; ECOWAS plan to use regional force to remove Gbagbo….
The demand for their “immediate” departure reflects the growing anger of Gbagbo’s nationalist supporters, and came as his most notorious lieutenant urged young Ivorians to make ready to fight for their sovereignty.
The United Nations, United States, European Union and Ivory Coast’s west African neighbours all demanded that Gbagbo cede power to Ouattara after both men claimed to have won last month’s presidential election.But the veteran strongman retains control of the official armed forces and his backers have vowed to fight on, turning their anger on UN peacekeepers, former colonial power France and Ouattara’s own Ivorian supporters.
“The president of the Republic of the Ivory Coast has just asked for the immediate departure from Ivorian territory of UNOCI and the French forces that support it,” Education Minister Jacqueline Lohoues-Oble said.As tension mounted between the two camps, Gbagbo’s supporters accused the United Nations 10,000-strong UNOCI peacekeeping force and France’s 900 troops in Ivory Coast of supporting pro-Ouattara rebel fighters.The spokeswoman repeated these claims and said: “The Ivorian government considers that UNOCI has broadly failed in its mission in carrying out acts that are not in conformity with its mandate.” ref: AP
