The Marcoussis peace accord is dead and a new opposition is
born
President Laurent Gbagbo's state visit to France, now rescheduled for sometime in January, will test diplomatic limits on both sides. Gbagbo doesn't want to appear too chummy with President Jacques Chirac: anti-French feeling is higher than ever among Gba...
Lieutenant Zadi's forcible interruption of state television programmes on 30 November to demand the withdrawal of French troops may presage a new offensive by loyalists of President Laurent Gbagbo against rebel forces in Bouake. A ceasefire signed on 3 Ma...
Peace remains a long way off for President Gbagbo and his divided
opponents
As relations worsen between President Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Seydou Diarra, a coup plot is no great surprise. But the plotters, a group of mercenaries led by veteran troublemaker Staff Sergeant Ibrahim Coulibaly ('IB'), were arrested not in Ab...
Despite a new ceasefire signed by the government and rebels on 3 May, tension has scarcely abated. The latest flashpoint for violence is the students' union congress, where at least two people were hacked to death with machetes in fighting between two riv...
President Laurent Gbagbo, under fire over renewed claims that his government is using mercenaries to fight rebels in the north and west, may have thought he was hiring South African security firm Executive Outcomes. While the Ivorian government denies hav...
Gbagbo grudgingly cooperates with a French-brokered peace agreement
Around President Laurent Gbagbo is a hard core which is fiercely opposed to the Marcoussis peace accord and firmly convinced of the truth of Pastor Moïse Koré's assertion that opposition leader Alassane Ouattara is the devil incarnate. Kor&eac...
France's efforts to impose a peace accord have failed. Côte d'Ivoire will now dominate the Franco-African summit in Paris on 19-21 February, far more than the controversial presence of President Robert Mugabe, who is in any case coming more to discu...
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