Next came the protests over the exclusion of former President Laurent Gbagbo his youth minister Charles Blé Goudé and ex-president of the Ivorian parliament Guillaume Soro from the list of eligible presidential candidates...

The coalition also includes Simone Gbagbo the ex-wife of former President Laurent Gbagbo and his former youth leader Charles Blé Goudé...

The subsequent return home of Ouattara's longtime rival Laurent Gbagbo after his acquittal at the International Criminal Court fed into the mood of consensus...

The current book he says fulfils his promise to the man who used to call him ‘fiston' (‘son') though it also details the contributions presidents Laurent Gbagbo Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Blaise Compaoré also made to the Elysée...

It's not former President Laurent Gbagbo – who last week announced his candidacy – that Ouattara and the RHDP have to worry about...

With the near-annihilation of former president Laurent Gbagbo's Parti des peuples africains – Côte d'Ivoire (PPA-CI) during local by-elections in September last year (the party failed to gain a seat in Gbagbo's stronghold of Guémon and Gbagbo's son Michel lost his mayoral seat in the Abidjan suburb of Yopougon to the RHDP) the PPA-CI has lost almost all momentum...

Only Soro and former President Laurent Gbagbo are on record for their repeated support for the three military juntas but while Gbagbo is a spent force Soro has known credentials as an organiser of armed rebellions and is in possession of a network mostly in Burkina Faso...

The death in 2023 of one former rival Henri Konan Bédié and the uncertain electoral appeal and civil status of his other key counterpart Laurent Gbagbo might persuade him to hand over to a younger generation something he had said was necessary before the 2020 election before changing his mind and running again after the sudden death of his planned successor Amadou Gon Coulibaly...

Although regularly touted as a potential next generation national leader he signalled no interest in returning to a political arena still dominated by incumbent president Alassane Ouattara and his predecessor and rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Bédié...

No formal announcements have been made but it is almost certain that the men many call the 'three dinosaurs' (Ouattara Henri Konan Bédié and Laurent Gbagbo) will run yet again to the frustration of many...