Laurent Gbagbo

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...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has endorsed an extension of President Laurent Gbagbo's time in office by another year and nothing useful is expected from the African Union's crisis meeting on Côte d'Ivoire which started on 17 October...

After trying to ignore the scandal and the involvement of some of its business friends President Laurent Gbagbo's government detained Claude Dauphin head of the oil trading company Trafigura...

President Laurent Gbagbo expressed concerns about suspension of Port Director Marcel Gossio Customs Director Gnamien Konan and Abidjan Governor Pierre Amondji Djédi...

Bemba is greatly buoyed by a wave of anti-foreigner feeling based on Congolité which has much in common with the harsh ethnic nationalism known as Ivoirité backed by supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo in Côte d'Ivoire...

The United Nations and European Union are stepping up pressure on President Laurent Gbagbo's government to account for its oil windfall funds and its levies on cocoa exports (AC Vol 47 No 8)...