After months of refusing to step down and thousands of people left dead, forces loyal to Ivory Coast president-elect, Alassane Ouattara, besieged a bunker where Laurent Gbagbo was in hiding and arrested him.
This marks an end to 10 years of rule by the Ivorian dictator and nearly five months of Ouattara trying to run the country since winning the election in November. Up until now, the country had been on the brink of facing, yet another civil war.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling this arrest as an indicator to other dictators who refuse to step down from power, will face serious consequences from the international community.
Because Gbagbo used military and security forces on his own people, there is considerable possibility that he shall likely be tried in the International Criminal Court.
Meanwhile, I'm sure the rest of the dictators in Africa and abroad are shaking in their boots and afraid of an upcoming unrest and overthrow of their governments. The events in the Middle East obviously show the Muslim Brotherhood's goal to start a Caliphate and the real possibility of something similar spreading throughout Africa should be in question.
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