Many African papers have described the ousting of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide as an example of the inconsistency of the international community.

One Ugandan commentator says it serves as a warning against hoping for purely humanitarian interventions in Africa, while another in the Ivory Coast worries that France will want to repeat there what it has achieved in Haiti.

And though Mr Aristide's final destination is still unclear, the prospect of it being South Africa brings little delight to commentators there.

Lessons from Haiti should not be lost on those looking to the international community to solve the 18-year conflict with the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, says the country's New Vision.

Though the war there has been devastating, it means little to North America and Europe, the paper says.

"The international community will loathe undertaking a mission simply for its humanitarian values... the prevailing attitude is that there must be some intrinsic return for sending your troops abroad."

Lessons for Haiti

The Ivory Coast's Notre Voie reflects that Haiti can also learn lessons from Africa's experiences.

Though the rebels who ousted President Aristide might be expected to lay down their arms, "armed men have often been observed to seek political roles", the paper says.

Poor Haiti! I mean poor Africa! Or poor blacks, which amounts to the same thing Fraternite Matin, Cote d'Ivoire

"One cannot help noting that the cases of the Ivory Coast and Liberia (where rebels were appointed to government positions) are being emulated now."

"This manner of seizing power is reprehensible," it adds.

Fraternite Matin, another Ivory Coast paper, believes the situation in Haiti indicates a greater malaise.

"Poor Haiti! I mean poor Africa! Or poor blacks, which amounts to the same thing," it laments.

The paper says that while the "white world" is progressing, blacks are pre-occupied with "military fatigues, guns, MiGs, Kalashnikovs and other barbaric things".

Great states?

Another Ivory Coast paper Le Nouveau Reveil has a different opinion of what Fraternite Matin calls the "white world", however, and worries that Mr Aristide's departure will have not entirely positive ramifications for the Ivory Coast.

French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin "succeeded in Haiti, and he wants a repeat in the Ivory Coast", the paper says.

"States are subject to other states," it muses, before going on to add that great states can "easily finish" little ones.

Adieu, Mr Wolf dressed in a cassock 24 Heures, Ivory Coast

Nigeria's Guardian is also doubtful the intervention will have positive results, saying that Haiti's future "is hanging in the balance, with the prospect of more misery for the people", while Cameroon's Le Messager calls the international involvement in Haiti "double-dealing".

Though there is little cheer for the intervention in Haiti, there is less for President Aristide who "helped seal his own fate", says South Africa's This Day.

"The man of God, turned politician, had also become an unpredictable dictator ... Expelled from power like an uncouth fellow, he has gone into exile again," says the Ivory Coast's 24 Heures.

It bids the former president: "Adieu, Mr Wolf dressed in a cassock."

Asylum

The prospect of Mr Aristide being sheltered by South Africa, however, leaves commentators there less than happy.

Accepting the president would only be "a personal favour to an odious person", says Business Day.

South Africa is already too closely associated with this kind of leader Business Day, South Africa

Since Mr Aristide decided to leave his country voluntarily, "he should be asked to join the back of the queue at Home Affairs like any other would-be immigrant", it says.

The paper also believes that such "foreign policy lapses" diminish the country's diplomatic effectiveness.

"South Africa is already too closely associated with this kind of leader, notably Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe," it says.

The Afrikaans-language Die Burger is more amenable to granting Mr Aristide asylum, but says South Africa must allow Haiti to bring him to trial if it wishes to in the future.

"Any other action by the government would cause great harm to this country's name," it says.

BBC Monitoring, based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.