这篇雅思阅读材料主要讲述了在非洲的象牙海岸总统宣布解散政府后,各个国际组织都表示希望他迅速离境,西非的国家甚至表示如果他拒绝的话,就要承担军事上的后果。这是怎么回事呢?
In the month since Mr. Gbagbo lost a long-delayed presidential election, the United Nations, the European Union, the United States, the African Union and the West African regional grouping known as Ecowas in a rare example of African and international solidarity have all declared that he must step down, slapping a near daily array of sanctions on his government until he does so. West African nations have even threatened to use military force to oust him if he refuses to leave.
But Mr. Gbagbo has been adamant, rebuffing a delegation of African leaders who urged him to give up power this week. That resistance has quickly turned Ivory Coast into a global test case of how and maybe whether the international community can impose its will on leaders who maintain solid support within their own militaries and refuse to recognize the elections they lose.
Given how many authoritarian leaders have been tolerated in Africa and elsewhere, the first hurdle in that test achieving a broad international consensus has been handily cleared. But Mr. Gbagbos persistent refusal to budge has effectively thrown the onus back on the foreign powers once again, forcing the issue of how far they will go to remove him.
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