Immediately after the Sarbanes-Oxley law was passed, audit firms were unwilling to risk scrutiny by the PCAOB and potential litigation under Sarbanes-Oxley over questionable accounting treatments or ones they were possibly coerced into agreeing to or ignoring for the sake of the relationship.
It is vital, for the sake of the whole continent, that all international bodies, especially African ones, keep up the pressure against Mr Gbagbo to make sure that he goes.