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Instead of favouring the transmission of shared ideals and values among the population, the concept of ivoirité, which was defined in an exclusive manner by the political elite in power, proved very divisive and fostered tensions and conflict within the country.

The Ministers recalled the decision of the Summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), held in Algiers in July 1999, calling for the restoration of constitutional legality in States whose governments had come to power through unconstitutional means, as well as the principles enshrined in the Constitutive Act of the African Union adopted in 2000 in Lomé, and in this context, encouraged the Non-Aligned Countries to continue to uphold the democratic ideals consistent with the Founding Principles of the Movement.

As President Obama said today, when a leader’s only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against its own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country, by leaving now.

This was mainly due to locally dominant clans using the influence of respected traditional leaders as facilitators of reconciliation while in the south and central regions warlords have used clan elders as a means to stay in power.

Entering the Council was also compared with the experience of a new government coming into power, as new Council members may have campaigned for many years to be elected, but, upon assuming their new responsibilities, they are acutely aware that they will have to manage a variety of difficult issues.

[...] has ensured vital ownership and endorsement.

The “neopatrimonialist” practices of the party in office since 2005 has relegated Burundi to the lowest governance rankings, reduced its appeal to foreign investors, damaged relations with donors; and contributed to social discontent.

There is a serious risk of instability if existing power holders feel threatened by their inevitable loss of political power (which is different from a serious risk of a return to authoritarianism, which is unlikely), or if important constituencies are marginalised.

Successful cases, such as Malawi and Brazil, were the consequence of leadership, suggesting that the answer lay in the interests and ideology of those in power, domestically, since the voices of the vulnerable were never heard at the political level, and internationally, in the ideology of the structural adjustment programmes of the 1980s (though still continuing) of the World Bank.

God is raising up multiplying groups of Christ-obeyers who are changing their communities, unencumbered by programs, buildings or administrative overhead.

For instance, control over assets transferred [...] [...]

[...] [...] broaden national ownership of such processes [...]

Hamas, as the de facto authority in Gaza, bears the [...] [...]

In the meantime, the former President’s administration has launched desperate manoeuvres to obtain the necessary financial means to allow it to remain in power, including funds required to pay the salaries of civil servants, loyal military forces, and mercenaries (see paras. 47-54 above).

We believe that the overcoming saints will reign with Christ in the millennium and that all the believers in Christ will participate in the divine blessings in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth for eternity.

[...] [...] possibility of a Communist government coming to power in Italy, and was [...]

One involves the prospect that a fierce struggle among ZANU-PF barons and security service strongmen to take over the mantle of the ancient and ill Mugabe may be near; the other that the next election, which cannot be much more than a year off, is likely to be as violent and its result as unrepresentative of the popular will as its predecessor unless progress is quickly made on electoral reforms, and something is done about the unreconstructed security services.