Civil War
On 19 September 2002 a revolt by northerners against Gbagbo's government partly failed. The rebels, calling themselves the "Forces Nouvelles," attempted to seize the cities of Abidjan, Bouaké, and Korhogo. They failed to take Abidjan, but were successful in the other two, respectively in the center and north of the country. Their grievances were that their mentor, Alassane Ouattara, had been barred from running in the 2000 presidential election, having been declared by The supreme court, the laws of the country of not being a real Ivoirian.
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“They have been waiting for us in a foetor
Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
Of the expropriated mycologist.”
—Derek Mahon (b. 1941)
“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)