Laurent Gbagbo has put Ivory Coast on a precarious path.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

When, on 28 November -- after Ivory Coast's elections had been postponed several times by the then president, Laurent Gbagbo -- Ivorians took to the polls, there was a very real expectation that Gbagbo's government had come to an end. Unfortunately, they had miscalculated Gbagbo's determination to hang on to the post he had held since 2000 and which he -- and his cohorts -- see as his birthright. Who cares that he had overstayed his welcome by five years already? Or that the election commission declared the opposition leader, Alassane Ouattara, winner? Or that there has been harsh criticism from the international community? Or indeed that the country …