Didier Drogba and his teammates from the Ivorian National team helped temporarily stop a civil war by delivering a message on live television. Didier Drogba surrounded by military men after a home match for Ivory Coast [Getty Images] West Africa is a region marked by remarkable cultural diversity and deep historical roots, and as a result it is home to a complex mixture of ethnicities, languages and religions. This background has created a political landscape just as complicated, which unfortunately often causes terrible civil wars that tear apart entire countries and their communities. Prime example of that are the wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia and the still ongoing rebellions in Mali. Ivory Coast suffered the brutality of internal conflicts as much as its neighbors. Felix Houphouët-Boigny, the country's first president after the independence, ruled the country for over 30 years, and under his leadership there was unprecedented stability and economic growth, to the point that thi...
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