Laurent Gbagbo

President Laurent Gbagbo is now fatally weakened unable even to muster a public explanation of the Marcoussis accord...

President Laurent Gbagbo who is not at the talks proposed a peace plan which included three referendums: on eligibility conditions for the presidency on land ownership rights and on the conditions for nationality and citizenship a cumbersome scheme that would keep the electorate busy until Gbagbo's term ends in late 2005...

It is not clear how much President Laurent Gbagbo is in charge or how long he will last...

Apart from Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo those causing most concern include Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma (who has promised to stand down next year but does everything to prepare for another term) and Guinea's President Lansana Conté Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou Nguesso Central African Republic's Ange-Félix Patassé and Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré...

Unpopular in Paris Paris doesn't like President Laurent Gbagbo but is obliged to support him as elected leader...

Some known as the Zinzin (crazy ones) and Bahéfouê (sorcerers) are soldiers recruited into the army by former military leader General Robert Gueï who had been resisting President Laurent Gbagbo's efforts to demobilise them...

Côte d'Ivoire is in danger of fragmenting on ethnic lines as efforts to put down an army mutiny turn into an all-out assault on immigrants and on opponents of President Laurent Gbagbo...

President Laurent Gbagbo warned on 5 July that security forces would arrest troublemakers in a TV speech followed by an oath of loyalty by armed forces chief General Mathias Doué...

Relations with Côte d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo have improved since Konaré mended fences after racist attacks in Abidjan hit Malians there...

The political peace depends shakily on the opposition's trust that President Laurent Gbagbo will deliver on his promises...