Ivory Coast, Francophone west Africa’s biggest economy and a regional business hub, is on edge before the first round of a presidential election, due on October 31st. The last time Ivory Coast had a close election, 3,000 people were killed.

So when a policeman in Abidjan, its recently saw men with machetes pouring out of vans, chatting amicably with his police chief and then attacking nearby unarmed protesters while the police looked on, he complained to Amnesty International, a human-rights watchdog.

These watchdogs are too busy in Nigeria. On a hairs trigger alert watching and waiting and hoping for a misstep by the Nigerian military so they can propagate their narrative. There seems to be a vested interest in bringing down the biggest Anglophone state in West Africa.

..or at the very least instigate diplomatic and trade relations with the region's two largest economies..which happens to be Anglophone States.