COTE D'IVOIRE: could the AU decide otherwise when it is 80% funded by the EU and many African states maintain privileged relations with the West based on long-term loans, grants, and the gracious cooperation of any kind?

COTE D'IVOIRE: could the AU decide otherwise when it is 80% funded by the EU and many African states maintain privileged relations with the West based on long-term loans, grants, and the gracious cooperation of any kind?
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Joel LECLERGER
The Council for Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union confirmed Thursday in Addis Ababa, the election of Alassane Ouattara as President of the Republic supported by the West and instructed the Commission President to appoint a High Representative for the implementation of the comprehensive political solution "binding" to all Ivorian parties.

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The President of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), Pascal Affi N'Guessan, representing President Laurent Gbagbo at this high level meeting of the SPC, dismissed on Thursday the proposal of the African Union, he said, not based on nothing because not argued. "We felt that a proposal is unacceptable," said Affi N'Guessan, as reported by the daily Le Temps.

But the analysis we realize that the colonial yoke of the West over the whole of Africa has resulted in the inability of the AU to decide for itself.

The conclusions of this meeting is the perfect illustration of this fact mentioned above. Indeed, the decision to recognize Alassane Ouattara as President of the Ivory Coast is not surprising. The AU is 80% funded by the EU and many African states maintain privileged relations with the West. These relationships are based on long-term loans, grants, and the gracious cooperation of any kind.

Made in the aftermath of independence, France in its former colonies under the leadership of President General de Gaulle established local governors expected to ensure that natural resources and geopolitical these countries still suffer the former colonial power . So to be elected, he had to have the anointing of his French masters. Follow this video of Jean Bedel Bocassa who was dropped after by France: Click 1 and hit 2.

In reality, sub-regional organizations and some African head of state are only the voice of West Africa. Otherwise how can we understand that the crisis in Libya is run by France and its allies AU relegating to the background, still flout the dignity of Africa as a whole. So when African leaders understand that we can count on themselves? As we will rely on the west, we will for them as men. So this fight that the Ivorian people embodied by President Laurent Gbagbo led to liberate the whole of Africa.