Vol 44 No 24 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE We interrupt . . . 5th December 2003 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 Presiden...
Vol 44 No 18 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Another year, another plot 12th September 2003 Peace remains a long way off for President Gbagbo and his divided opponents Despite the repeated declarations of peace, Côte d'Ivoire's crisis is still far from solution. As the conflict heads into its second year, the splits between President Lauren...
Vol 44 No 17 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Paris plotters 29th August 2003 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 tr...
Vol 44 No 10 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Tout sauf Gbagbo? 16th May 2003 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 leas...
Vol 44 No 8 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Faux EO? 18th April 2003 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 Africa...
Vol 44 No 7 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Unity's opponents 4th April 2003 Gbagbo grudgingly cooperates with a French-brokered peace agreement The 5 pm traffic jam of cars with African Development Bank licence plates heading out of Abidjan's Plateau business district to leafy villas in Cocody and Deux Plateaux is gone. In...
Vol 44 No 7 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Hard-core Gbagbo 4th April 2003 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 asserti...
Vol 44 No 3 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE No deal 7th February 2003 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 p...
Vol 44 No 2 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Foul play 24th January 2003 Delegates talk peace in Paris but back home the killings continue and divisions deepen Major changes to laws on eligibility to hold political office and to own land have been outlined by Côte d'Ivoire's political parties and rebel movements meeting in France si...
Vol 43 No 25 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE A new front opens 20th December 2002 France is determined to enforce the peace but may find the latest rebels hard to handle The images of frightened Ivorian people with bundles of possessions on their heads are even more shocking because the refugees are fleeing down well maintained tarmac roads with a ...