Laurent Gbagbo

This was heatedly disputed last week in New York with presidents such as Cote d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki together with the African Union Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré arguing forcefully for the end of foreign troop deployments in Africa...

Sarkozy may have started to melt the froideur between Côte d'Ivoire and France after he and President Laurent Gbagbo shook hands warmly at the meeting...

That is the official line put out by officials around President Laurent Gbagbo and with slightly less enthusiasm by senior rebel figures...

That would increase the profits for President Laurent Gbagbo's allies from sales to the multinational companies that buy West African cocoa...

Following the Ouagadougou peace accord of January 2007 (AC Vol 48 No 6) President Laurent Gbagbo started lobbying the ADB...

President Laurent Gbagbo's government is criticised for diverting cocoa taxes into military expenditure...

He represented La Francophonie in Côte d'Ivoire forming a close relationship with President Laurent Gbagbo who came to Conakry ahead of Babangida's visit to lobby for Kouyaté...

President Laurent Gbagbo likes the 4 March peace accord signed with rebel leader Guillaume Soro under the auspices of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré...

The main personal link of the PS with an African leader has been to a fellow member of the Socialist International Côte d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo...

President Laurent Gbagbo has bought some time but may not have enough cash to resolve the dispute concerning thousands of 2002/2003 recruits...

The daily Matin d'Abidjan close to Jeunes Patriotes' leader Charles Blé Goudé is already blaming the attack on General Mathias Doué the army chief who was sacked after President Laurent Gbagbo launched a failed attack against northern rebels in November 2004...