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Côte d’Ivoire

Laurent Gbagbo

Date of Birth: 31 May 1945
Place of Birth: Mama village, near Gagnoa


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The smugglers make their fortunes

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...


To catch a thief

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...


Remaking an old relationship

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...


No funeral for Françafrique

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'...


The contenders

President Laurent Gbagbo (59) is a doctor of history of the Sorbonne France and a prolific author...

He said 'what differentiates the current peace process from earlier efforts is the fact that direct dialogue was offerend by President Laurent Gbagbo and accepted by the FN - the two principal belligerents...

Laurent Gbagbo is hostile to him partly due to the arrest of Michel Gbagbo his oldest son after a peaceful demonstration when Ouattara was Premier under Houphouët-Boigny...


Before and after the voting

President Laurent Gbagbo and the ex-rebel Prime Minister Guillaume Soro agreed last summer that enough money was available but that it does not reach the workers on the ground...


As sweet as chocolate

Whether the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo the northern leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara or the leader of the former single party the Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire Henri Konan Bédié wins China is keen to show that it will be a faithful friend...


Forever delayed

The postponements have dragged on since 2005 when President Laurent Gbagbo completed his constitutional term...


Three's a crowd

President Laurent Gbagbo 63 was a university teacher and trade unionist who was imprisoned and exiled for opposing Houphouët-Boigny...


Spreading toxicity

Many Abidjanais link Tommy to President Laurent Gbagbo's government although it blames the then Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny for the environmental crisis...


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