Ouattara

"It may not help that Mr Ouattara, a former Ivorian prime minister and deputy director of the IMF, has been a close friend of the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, for the past 20 years. Mr Gbagbo’s people accuse France of orchestrating a coup d’état in a bid to regain control of its former colony...Atrocities have been committed by both sides, the most recent by pro-Ouattara forces in the country’s west."