Grande C'ote D'ivoire



=Grande C'ote D'ivoire=

Summary
-           The one man dictatorship of general-president “blank” has brought this West African nation to new level of ruin not before seen in previous despots. With 73 coups and coup d’états in the nation’s mere 137 year history, stability and rule of law has remained a purely intellectual concept in the country.

-           Despite its strong military roots, the Ivorian military is very poorly funded, with ghost salaries and gross corruption being the norm,  poor maintenance and even the occasional “defection” or sale of whole battalions by commanders to other nations plague any sense of progress in general-president “blank” dream of a mechanized, modern Ivorian military.

-           Although extremely rich in resources, the Ivorian countryside is largely untapped, and its people completely neglected, as education and quality of life standards are among the lowest in the world.