At least 52 civilians have been killed in the past week amid escalating violence instigated by an authoritarian President who refuses to heed the will of his people. No, not in Libya, or Yemen, or Bahrain, but in the West African nation of Ivory Coast, which is struggling for media attention amid crises elsewhere.
“Ivory Coast isn’t considered strategically important enough on the global stage — it is not a Libya, so to speak,” one Western diplomat points out. “And that, quite simply, is why it hasn’t got the attention it deserves from the international community.”
