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Ivory Coast teeters on brink of civil war
No one who has been following events in Ivory Coast is surprised to see the outbreak of violence Thursday that is pushing the country to the brink of civil war.
Ivory Coast has been a slow motion train wreck ever since the disputed election at the end of November that left two rival politicians claiming to be president.
Observers fear Ivory Coast is returning to the civil war that divided the country in 2002 and 2003.
Fifteen people were killed Thursday in Abidjan, the country's main city, in clashes between supporters of Laurent Gbagbo, the president who lost the election but refuses to leave office, and Alassane Ouattara, the opposition leader who won the official count.