Laurent Gbagbo

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...

The big guns of the African Union have lost patience with President Laurent Gbagbo...

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...

By bombing the French military base at Bouaké chasing French citizens out of Abidjan and burning down their schools in the capital President Laurent Gbagbo has wrecked one of his few remaining assets the backing of France's opposition Parti Socialiste (PS)...

The harmony may not last but opponents of President Laurent Gbagbo are meeting in Paris to discuss uniting behind a single candidate in next year's elections...

If President Laurent Gbagbo still worries about what people think of him the row over the resignation of cocoa producers' leader Henri Amouzou has triggered some embarrassing revelations...

At a 6 July meeting on Côte d'Ivoire at the African Union summit Bongo berated President Laurent Gbagbo for never keeping the promises made at many such gatherings since the start of the crisis...

After Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo visited Conakry twice in three weeks in April and May rumours were rife that he planned to attack the northern rebels via Guinea...

A United NationsSecurity Council mission arrived on 22 June and the UN threatensa travel ban on figures in Laurent Gbagbo's inner circle though not the President himself...

President Laurent Gbagbo's Bété andallied ethnic groups (Agni Atié Dida and Guéré) now dominate the security apparatus which operates outside the official chain of command leaving Army Chief of Staff General Mathias Doué and ground forces commander Gen...