Sunday, July 17, 2011

Large markets in IVORYCOAST: Obama wants his share of pie

If  Ivory Coast oil, according to the information site Wikileaks has begun since last April to take the lead of France, cocoa, meanwhile, continues to be controlled by American chocolatiers including Cargill and the UK where Amajaro Loïk Folloroux, son of Dominique Ouattara, wife of IvoryCoast President Alassane Ouattara , is the Director. Cocoa is now paid on 300fcfa field to the delight of chocolate business holders and misery of the peasants. Gone are the price of 1100 FCFA on the applied field under President Laurent Gbagbo. The former head of the Ivorian state, who was ousted from power by France, on April 11, Americans and French are rubbing their hands for "business". Three months after installing their friend to power, the new head of state, Alassane Ouattara, Washington pouts in Paris on sharing the "pie market security" in Cote d'Ivoire. According to the publication La Lettre du Continent No. 615 of 7 July, the U.S. said they were increasingly embittered by the maneuvers of  Ouattara regime which tends to want to focus exclusively on French interests in the markets (arms, supervision, equipment variety ...) related to security and defense in IvoryCoast. Angry, Washington has sent emissaries to meet with Mr. Ouattara in Abidjan and in Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), on the sidelines of the summit of the African Union (AU), according to corroborating sources close to Ouattara entourage, to  pressure him so that he does not forget Uncle Sam in the sharing of "the pie". Pressures that have paid as much as the head of state, Alassane Ouattara, has given "instructions to hold or stop orders for equipment and armaments of the Police and the Gendarmerie of IVoryCoast. Officially, the reason is serious cash flow problems, "wrote The Letter of the continent". Although due to financial difficulties is not unfounded because the Ivory Coast through a deep economic crisis, the U.S. would accept that Ouattara clearly does not meet "its commitments" to Washington who helped him diplomatically against Gbagbo. Barack Obama even sent on May 21, his "securocrats" Brooke Anderson, chief of staff of the national security of the White House to attend the inauguration of Ouattara in Yamoussoukro.These commitments are discussed here implicitly by the letter of the continent: "Americans have always Abidjan, in the district of the Riviera, not far from their embassy-fortress, the counseling center area of ​​the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), considering the economic capital to a regional pool to fight against both the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and insecurity in the Gulf of Guinée.A training program in marine commandos in Abidjan area is in the pipeline within Africom, the U.S. military command dedicated to Africa and based in Stuttgart (Germany). " According to informed sources close to president Ouattara , the town of Grand-Bassam was chosen to host the U.S. military base

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