Yes, Laurent Gbagbo has left and Allassane Ouattara has taken his rightful place, but it is not over yet.The last few days have been full of bad news from Ivory Coast. On June 6, an independent inquiry appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council noted that a number of atrocities had been committed during the previous half year of turmoil, some of them likely war crimes. Worse, months after the political crisis in the Ivory Coast came to an end, the violence continues in pockets of the country, according to new testimonies collected by Medecins Sans Frontiers and statements by officials at the United Nations mission in Cote d’Ivoire.
What we cannot forget is that Ivory Coast, like Nigeria, is so divided by ethnicity. As at June 17, there were some 142,331 Ivorian refugees living in Liberia. In Abidjan, armed men still roam the streets, and mercenaries, some from neighboring states, are still to be found crossing in and out of the country.
As Elizabeth Dickinson, a writer noted, ''some 50 members of the Gbagbo administration — including the former prime minister and former minister of foreign affairs — are being held without charge.''
Expect more crises on the way.