Blog 4

Militia is attacking Ivory Coast from Liberia.

     [Power can be defined as the ability or official capacity to exercise control]. Sometimes power can be good and sometimes this can be bad, because like some people say, “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. I think that this phrase describes exactly what happens to a lot of people, sometimes when they get some power they want more and more, many times they want power so much that this corrupts them causing someone to change completely.

    Recently something has affected Ivory Coast very seriously; this is the government failure to stop the infiltration of mercenaries and militia from Liberia to this country. This causes a very severe crisis in both countries because this type of forces affects the civilians and the country in general. After some research the Ivory Coast government discovered that this attacks are receiving funds by Ghana. Ivory coast government also say that they are doing their best to stop this kind of action, unfortunately this has not happened yet.

     In this article we can see that power is highly involved, because this is a proof that sometimes the power of rebel groups is greater than the one of the government, this article also makes clear that the will of gaining more power sometimes is bigger than the respect of human life because as I said before “ power corrupts and  absolute power corrupts absolutely”. I think that what the government should do is to do his greater effort to stop this kind of attacks, and to show the rebels who has more power. I also think that if this does not stop can lead to a war so the best that the government could do is to try to clear the things out with Ghana, if not this can lead into a war.


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