Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire

Population: 18.5 million
GNI: $16000 million
Debt: $9900 million
Overview: The much delayed presidential election is scheduled for June but progress on disarmament and identification is needed if the poll is to be credible and consolidate President Laurent Gbagbo's deal with rebel leader Guillaume Soro.

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  • Vol 45 No 7
  • 02/04/2004

After the phoney war

The Marcoussis peace accord is dead and a new opposition is born

  • Vol 44 No 25
  • 19/12/2003

Next year in Paris

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...

  • Vol 44 No 24
  • 05/12/2003

We interrupt . . .

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...

  • Vol 44 No 18
  • 12/09/2003

Another year, another plot

Peace remains a long way off for President Gbagbo and his divided opponents

  • Vol 44 No 17
  • 29/08/2003

Paris plotters

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...

  • Vol 44 No 10
  • 16/05/2003

Tout sauf Gbagbo?

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...

  • Vol 44 No 8
  • 18/04/2003

Faux EO?

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...

  • Vol 44 No 7
  • 04/04/2003

Unity's opponents

Gbagbo grudgingly cooperates with a French-brokered peace agreement

  • Vol 44 No 7
  • 04/04/2003

Hard-core Gbagbo

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...

  • Vol 44 No 3
  • 07/02/2003

No deal

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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