{"id":389814,"date":"2011-04-22T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/22\/think-twice-before-stealing-elections\/"},"modified":"2011-04-22T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T14:44:16","slug":"think-twice-before-stealing-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/22\/think-twice-before-stealing-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Twice Before Stealing Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"19.8603587759\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thezimbabweindependent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/f6c2zimidependent180.jpg\" alt=\"Zimbabwe Independent (Harare)\" title=\"Visit Zimbabwe Independent (Harare)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clifford Mashiri<\/p>\n<p>20 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>opinion<\/p>\n<p>THE humiliating capture of Laurent Gbagbo in a white vest on Sunday by forces loyal to his rival Alassane Ouattara who won presidential elections in Ivory Coast must have come as a big shock to President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s ally Jonathan Moyo.<\/p>\n<p>In January Jonathan Moyo poured scorn at the popularly elected leader of the Ivory Coast Ouattara in the same way he does Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have a candidate created by the so-called international community. Ouattara is of disputed nationality, whom the courts in that country have over the years found him not to be Ivorian,&#8221; Moyo said in January.<\/p>\n<p>Despite calls by Jonathan Moyo on Gbagbo to refuse to vacate office saying &#8220;the so-called international community&#8221; was meddling in Ivory Coast affairs, Quattara had the last laugh when he managed to capture a very scared and sweating Gbagbo in the presidential palace. As noted by other analysts, the fall of Gbagbo is a clear message to other dictators to heed the warning from the international community to think twice before stealing elections.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104220585.html\" title=\"Think Twice Before Stealing Elections\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Think Twice Before Stealing Elections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Clifford Mashiri 20 April 2011 opinion THE humiliating capture of Laurent Gbagbo in a white vest on Sunday by forces loyal to his rival Alassane Ouattara who won presidential elections in Ivory Coast must have come as a big shock to President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s ally Jonathan Moyo. In January Jonathan Moyo poured scorn at the popularly elected leader of the Ivory Coast Ouattara in the same way he does Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. &#8220;You have a candidate created by the so-called international community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Think Twice Before Stealing Elections - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/22\/think-twice-before-stealing-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Think Twice Before Stealing Elections - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Clifford Mashiri 20 April 2011 opinion THE humiliating capture of Laurent Gbagbo in a white vest on Sunday by forces loyal to his rival Alassane Ouattara who won presidential elections in Ivory Coast must have come as a big shock to President Robert Mugabe&#039;s ally Jonathan Moyo. 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