Gabon: The Côte d'Ivoire effect?

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

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http://www.france24.com/en/20110126-andre-mba-obame-names-parallel-government-gabon-ivory-coast

Then now, all opposition movements would call for UN observers hopping that in case of problems they can also benefit of 'intervention', and then there would be an 'intervention' each time? Which could as a side effect make incumbent powers refusing to have UN observers monitoring fearing concrete consequences after a bad judgment on their elections.

Last developments there:

http://www.france24.com/en/20110127-clashes-errupt-gabon-over-new-president-obame

[Antonio the Sixth]

Well the situations are totally different. Gabonese elections were probably rigged, but we don't know who would have won otherwise. Ivoirian elections were fair and the legal winner was deprived of his victory by a sore loser.