Ivory Coast has been plunged back into civil war after a slow-burning election crisis developed into violence with forces loyal to the internationally recognised president-elect, Alassane Ouattara, poised to take the capital.
Kalenjin gangs swept the Rift Valley hills after the last election, burning down the homes of other ethnic groups, especially the Kikuyu, Mr. Kibaki's people.
The priority for the government is now to save the old boat of the French welfare state until the next election, without burning too much political credit.
"Burning schools, burning markets.
The academic Jeremy Dibble (in his biography of the composer John Stainer, a friend of Müller) has written that the election "amply foreshadowed the ensuing battle between contemporary sacred and secular forces in the university, the anachronism of Oxford's systems of academic election and the burning need for reform".
But still there were pockets of trouble, with mobs venting their election-related frustrations, burning down houses, stoning cars, smashing windows and challenging police officers.
As a liberal, voting for someone other than Hillary Clinton in this election would be like burning down your house because your toilet is broken.
THE violence that marred the local elections in March, with burning tyres, tear-gas and improvised barricades, was reminiscent of the apartheid-era images from Soweto.
I get the feeling that legislators are knowingly burning the furniture in advance of an election".
By nightfall, side-streets off the march route recalled the most dramatic scenes of agitation after the disputed presidential election of 2009, with protesters burning rubbish bins and taunting the security forces.
A burning bus in Tehran during the 2009 presidential election.
