Vol 42 No 9 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Home and away 4th May 2001 France, at least, backs President Laurent Gbagbo. The head of a team it sent to help draw up aid requests (AC Vol 42 No 4) is none other than Jean-Michel Severino, who on his retur...
Vol 42 No 4 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Dialogue de sourds 23rd February 2001 Prime Minister Pascal Affi N'Guessan told journalists he was happy with his talks in Brussels on 15 February. The European Union would continue the political dialogue and would sup...
Vol 41 No 25 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Gbagbo rides the tiger 22nd December 2000 Gbagbo could still pull his country back from the brink but shows little sign of wanting to The stunning victory of President Laurent Koudou Gbagbo's Front Populaire Ivoirien in the parliamentary elections on 10 December settles nothing. In many respects, it makes matters...
Vol 41 No 22 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Gbagbo's next test 10th November 2000 The nation's troubles are not over yet. On 10 December, elections for the National Assembly will follow the 22 October presidential election. This is the poll in which Laurent Gbag...
Vol 41 No 21 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Milosevic effect 27th October 2000 The flight of military leader General Robert Gueï to Benin and the assumption of the Presidency by Laurent Gbagbo, the winner of the 22 October election, solves one problem bu...
Vol 41 No 19 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Gueï goes it alone 29th September 2000 The army and the OAU are both at odds with the General The head of the military junta, General Robert Gueï, says the generals who ranked second and third in his regime tried to have him murdered. And when seven heads of state of t...
Vol 41 No 15 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Moving goalposts 21st July 2000 General Robert Gueï's junta aims to set up a civilian regime before the end of the year, but is not even in full control of its own army. The referendum on a new constitution,...
Vol 41 No 13 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE The national question 23rd June 2000 General Gueï' still hasn't decided whether Ouattara can run in the presidential polls The battle of the conjunctions has been joined. The conjunctions in question are 'ou' and 'et'. They are dominating political debate in Abidjan. Behind it is the constitutional que...
Vol 41 No 13 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE The military-metropolitan team 23rd June 2000 In Paris, General Robert Gueï is supported by a troop of retired generals who have gone into business. Most prominent is Gen. Jeannou Lacaze, Chief of Staff of the French army...
Vol 41 No 9 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Cheque in the post 28th April 2000 Abidjan's cash crisis has brought it to the verge of default on its Brady bond commercial debt. President-General Robert Gueï's key ministers - government coordinator Seydou D...