In the last few hours French Special forces in the Ivory Coast have moved in to arrest the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo. Although this is something the French have been in a position to do for about a week they moved in very quickly without permission from the United Nations.
Mr Gbagbo is now being held in the Golf Hotel in Abidjan so sadly rather then being a legitimate attempt to bring him to justice, calm the situation in the country and allow the elected President Alassande Ouatarra to take up office this is French attempt to enquire about the result of the US Open Golf tournament that ended in the USA yesterday (10/4/11). Apparently Jacob Zuma beat me in a surprise final round which is being seen as an American endorsement of the African Union (AU) road map for peace in Libya - a plan that Britain and France are opposed too.
What will happen now in Cote D'Ivorie will be interesting because a lot of bad feeling has been built up in the country since the start of the political crisis and after five years of civil war it's not exactly a place where conventional command structures exist.
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