Vol 47 No 8 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Identity crisis 14th April 2006 Plans for new voters' cards and a new electoral register provoke yet another political deadlock A row between Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny and President Laurent Gbagbo about identity cards and the electoral roll goes to the heart of the political crisis (AC...
Vol 47 No 4 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Not all necessary powers 17th February 2006 Power struggles and postcolonial fantasies prevent the UN from disentangling the conflict There is no sign of a letup in the conflict between President Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Konan Banny, the former banker appointed Prime Minister last November. The United...
Vol 47 No 2 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Bane of Banny 20th January 2006 The ruling Front Populaire Ivoirien's withdrawal from the national power-sharing government on 16 January serves up the first full-blown crisis to Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny, appointed on...
Vol 46 No 23 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Circling the wagons 18th November 2005 President Gbagbo tells his followers to talk peace and prepare for war The regime in Abidjan is threatened by northern rebels and allies of the sacked army chief, General Mathias Doué. President Laurent Gbagbo has told ruling party officials and...
Vol 46 No 22 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Time's up 4th November 2005 Threats and ethnic rivalries get wilder as President Gbagbo's mandate runs out Violence looms again. President Laurent Gbagbo's five-year term in office ended on 26 October but he insists on staying on. National elections are blocked by the stalemate between...
Vol 46 No 20 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE No polls, no peace 7th October 2005 Mediators come and go but President Gbagbo wants to go on and on President Laurent Gbagbo and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan agree on one thing: elections cannot be held on 30 October. This is at once obvious and crushing....
Vol 46 No 18 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Private coups 9th September 2005 With over 10,000 peacekeepers in country, France and the United Nations are pressing President Laurent Gbagbo to demobilise his militias (AC Vol 46 No 14). He has been...
Vol 46 No 14 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Peace postponed 8th July 2005 As the disarmament and election timetables slip, the country is crumbling Another crisis, another timetable for peace. Disarmament must now get underway by the end of this month. The mediators are reluctant to admit that elections cannot be held...
Vol 46 No 7 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Twixt South Africa and France 1st April 2005 Top Ivorian politicians will be under pressure to agree terms for the October elections and to implement commitments already made in fresh talks in South Africa on 3...
Vol 46 No 3 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE High noon 4th February 2005 President Laurent Gbagbo is heading for another showdown with France. He is rebuilding his modest airforce, bombed to cinders by French jets on 6 November after loyalist forces...