Reconciliation falters in Ivory Coast as Ouattara is slow to welcome back exiles

Three years after the fall of Laurent Gbagbo, justice has still not been done as presidential elections loom into view

Alassane Ouattara was sworn in as president of Ivory Coast in May 2011, after a short, sharp post-electoral crisis in which 3,000 died, according to the United Nations. But three years later justice has still not been done, permanently jeopardising the reconciliation process.

The transfer of Charles Blé Goudé to the international criminal court last month is emblematic of at least part of the problem. A key figure in the regime led by President Laurent Gbagbo, he is being prosecuted by the court on four charges of crimes against humanity committed during the fighting that followed the disputed 2010 presidential election.

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source Guardian