The mediator of the African Union (AU) to the Ivorian crisis, the Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, will for the second time in Cote d'Ivoire "Thursday or Friday," his spokesman announced. "He will meet first with the chairman of the AU Commission Jean Ping in Nairobi on Wednesday, before leaving for the Ivory Coast," he said Tuesday January 11 at the Dennis Onyango.Mr. Odinga visited the first time in Abidjan, in early January, where he met with three heads of state mandated by the sub-region, MM. Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo. Kenyan Prime Minister has repeatedly protested against the possibility of setting up a coalition government in Côte d'Ivoire to end the crisis, saying this would amount to "a rape of democracy".
Himself was appointed prime minister of a coalition government after the disputed re-election of Mwai Kibaki's rival in the presidential election of December 27, 2007, which was followed by bloodshed. This second visit by Mr. Odinga comes after that, very discreet, the former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, who left Abidjan on Monday after two-day visit.
African diplomatic source said, Mr. Obasanjo has been sent to "exploratory mission" by the chairman of ECOWAS, the Nigerian Head of State, Goodluck Jonathan. The former leader of Nigeria explained to Mr. Gbagbo "the inevitability of alternation" at the top of the Ivorian state and expressed to Mr.
Ouattara's "strong support of the international community," said to one of these sources.
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