Laurent Gbagbo

The AFP was finally legalised in April and announced at its debut news conference that it was making contacts with like-minded parties including intriguingly the Rassemblement du Peuple Gabonais of President Omar Bongo as well as the governing Parti Démocratique Sénégalais and the Front Populaire Ivoirien of President Laurent Gbagbo...

To French embarrassment he has played an important role in mediating peace talks on Côte d'Ivoire and he hosted a meeting between Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and Liberian leader Charles Taylor on 26 April...

The latest flashpoint for violence is the students' union congress where at least two people were hacked to death with machetes in fighting between two rival factions of President Laurent Gbagbo's Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) on 10-11 May...

Sierra Leone's Special Court may indict Taylor for war crimes but arresting him would be awkward though he has travelled this year most recently to Togo for talks with Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo on 26 April...

Bangaly Traoré Secretary General at the Ministry of Economy and Finance has said there is 'no question' of future Malian dependence on Abidjan and San Pedro ports a further indication of official anger at Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and his failure to halt attacks on migrant workers from the Sahel...

President Laurent Gbagbo under fire over renewed claims that his government is using mercenaries to fight rebels in the north and west may have thought he was hiring South African security firm Executive Outcomes...

President Laurent Gbagbo's remarks about January's Marcoussis peace accord always make clear that he doesn't like it but that the country has to put up with it...

Around President Laurent Gbagbo is a hard core which is fiercely opposed to the Marcoussis peace accord and firmly convinced of the truth of Pastor Moïse Koré's assertion that opposition leader Alassane Ouattara is the devil incarnate...

Alpha Condé has substantial support among the Malinké but his backing of President Laurent Gbagbo despite attacks on Guineans in Côte d'Ivoire has created a rebellion within RPG ranks...

The festive ambiance was somewhat overshadowed by the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire despite furious French efforts to secure a peace deal before the summit but President Laurent Gbagbo wasn't there to hear President Jacques Chirac explicitly condemn the death squads and threaten war crimes prosecutions (AC Vol 44 No 3)...