Laurent Gbagbo

Security arrangements for the 31 October elections were largely directed by Kadet Bertin President Laurent Gbagbo’s niece and his Special Advisor on Military Affairs eclipsing the Army Chief of Staff General Philippe Mangou...

President Laurent Gbagbo’s mandate expired in 2005 but he has stayed on claiming that the country was not ready to vote while the issues that precipitated civil war in 2002 remain unresolved (AC Vol 51 Nos 1 & 5)...

Political activists of all tendencies are increasingly frustrated by the old guard of Laurent Gbagbo (65 years old) Henri Konan Bédié (76) and Alassane Dramane Ouattara (68)...

Condé an old classmate of France’s Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner has been active in the Socialist International alongside presidents Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d’Ivoire José Eduardo dos Santos of Angola and Jacob Zuma of South Africa...

Once again President Laurent Gbagbo has driven democratisation off the rails...

President Laurent Gbagbo far cannier than his dour rivals is tipped to win the vote whenever it is held...

On 21 December French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said ‘The Ivorian head of state Laurent Gbagbo should win...

Coffee cocoa and pick-ups The UN experts also believe the purchase by the Ivorian Defence Ministry of Japanese lorries and pick-up trucks could be a breach of the embargo perhaps for President Laurent Gbagbo's Republican Guard...

Then with much diplomatic cunning Compaoré's offer of mediation in the drawn-out negotiations between the rebels and President Laurent Gbagbo's regime transformed him from rebel sponsor to regional peacemaker...

Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo has called the postcolonial defence agreements hypocritical but Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade fears countries could slide into civil war without the stabilising effect of French troops who dominate EU peacekeeping forces in Chad and CAR...

Yet no current leader - Presidents Laurent Gbagbo Paul Biya Blaise Compaoré or Denis Sassou-Nguesso - can fulfil the role pioneered by Côte d'Ivoire's President Félix Houphouët-Boigny and continued by the 'Grand Camarade'...