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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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Private coups

With over 10 000 peacekeepers in country France and the United Nations are pressing President Laurent Gbagbo to demobilise his militias (AC Vol 46 No 14)...


    Vol 46 No 16 |

Reining in the military

Few believe that credible elections can be held in Côte d'Ivoire leaving three unpalatable alternatives: the best (but least likely) outcome would be for the government and its opponents to negotiate a postponement of the elections and an extension of President Laurent Gbagbo's mandate...


Peace postponed

This brings President Laurent Gbagbo's legitimacy into dispute as his five-year mandate will have expired by 30 October...


Through a glass very darkly

In a secret investigation Sierra Leone's Special Court has accused Taylor of breaking the terms of his asylum and plotting to overthrow the governments of Conté and of Laurent Gbagbo in Côte d'Ivoire (AC Vol 46 No 9)...


    Vol 46 No 10 |
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Faure's French friends

Côte d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo relates to almost any beleaguered leader...


Twixt South Africa and France

Due to attend are President Laurent Gbagbo opposition leader Alassane Ouattara former President Henri Konan Bédié and Guillaume Soro leader of the ex-rebel Forces Nouvelles...


High noon

President Laurent Gbagbo is heading for another showdown with France...


Peace, or else

Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo pushed through the new laws required by the Marcoussis and Accra peace accords in time to ward off UN sanctions in December but still wants a referendum on the change to Article 35 of the constitution that will enable opposition leader Alassane Ouattara to stand for president...


At war with the peacekeepers

President Laurent Gbagbo may have helped that process along on 13 November when he sacked General Mathias Doué and replaced him with Colonel Philippe Mangou the Commander of the Yamoussoukro region who led the assault on the French base in Bouaké on 6 November...


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