“Premier Odinga has disappointed the poor. He has obtained what he wanted for himself and his family, but he has betrayed his long-standing supporters”. These are the words of S.K., a young Kenyan man who was forced to flee Nairoby during the unrest last January. He was reached by Peacereporter via email. His words reflect the mood of a lot of Kenyans five months after the post-electoral violence, continue...
Distant ripples of the Kosovo Effect have arrived on the slopes of the Himalayas, and now risk undermining the peace process in Nepal and the historic elections scheduled for April 10. For the past two weeks, Nepal has been paralyzed by a bandh, a general strike called by separatists who demand independence for the Terai region, a zone at the foot of the mountains where all Nepal’s communications, production, continue...
Ambassador Gosetti, what are your observations about your first six months in Haiti? After thirty years of service in Africa, the first difference is obvious: Haiti is part of the West. Its social and developmental problems are not those of other developing countries. The slaves transported here from Africa were completely torn from their origins and culture, deported into the western world and organized in western terms. continue...
Prachanda's Maoists have cheated: they bypassed the peace agreements commitments, thus deceiving the UN Nepalese mission (Unmin). A fraud that is putting the whole peace process at risk. The agreements. The deal that last November stopped ten years of civil war – with more than 13, continue...
Less than a week ago Ivory Coast was still a country at war: divided into two sides by a buffer zone, the army and the rebels of the Forces Nouvelles facing each other and a political process to a standstill for two years. But in a week the country has made more progress than in the previous five years. continue...
It took just a little more than sixty minutes to put an end to five years of civil war. Today, Ivory Coast is once again be a unified nation according to an agreement reached last week among army representatives, members of the Forces Nouvelles rebel group, French troops part of Operation Licorne, and United Nations peacekeepers. Civil war has cost the lives of some 4,000 people, continue...
After five years, the Ivory Coast civil war may have arrived at a turning-point: last Sunday, the Ivory Coast president, Laurent Gbagbo, and the leader of the rebels of Forces Nouvelles (New Forces), Guilaume Soro, have reached agreement for the beginning of a peace program that within five weeks will have led to the formation of a new government and to the birth of a committee joined by the Armed Forces. continue...
