Ghana Aims to Avoid ‘Bloodbath’ in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast’s political crisis threatens to reignite a civil war, leaving its West African neighbors to deal with a flood of refugees, Ghana’s Foreign Minister Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni said.

“You need a small spark and the worse conflagration can happen,” Mumuni said yesterday in an interview in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, where the crisis is being discussed at an African Union summit. “We don’t want to see a bloodbath in the Ivory Coast. We certainly don’t want to see the Ivorian people streaming out of their own country. We will be swamped.”