Laurent Gbagbo

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...

Côte d’Ivoire’s President Laurent Gbagbo is due to hold elections by October 2007 according to the agreement mediated by the United Nations...

A further blow to French hegemony has been struck in Côte d’Ivoire where some of President Laurent Gbagbo’s supporters have set up a movement ‘in support of Paul Kagame’s actions’...

If Banny wants to wrest control from President Laurent Gbagbo he will have to take on Bouabré’s networks...

The French-sponsored resolution at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on 1 Novmber increasing the powers of Premier Charles Konan Banny at the expense of President Laurent Gbagbo is likely to prompt more political infighting...