Now here is a yank who seems to have learned something during his time in Africa.
US envoy cautions against power sharing in Ivory Coast
Simple and self evident... but not to Washington, Paris and London it seems.``Because what power sharing does is that it enables a big man who has lost an election to remain in power, and from that perspective this is a particularly sensitive time in Africa.
``The spread of power sharing may well tempt those who lose those elections to try to either somehow hang onto power or gain power or (even) some options of power.
``Power sharing is undemocratic,’’
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