Laurent Gbagbo

Western-approved leaders such as Presidents Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique and Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d'Ivoire were in evidence...

Another Nigerian company Atlas Petroleum owned by Ibo businessman Prince Arthur Eze has a stake in Equatorial Guinea's offshore waters and its sister company Oranto Petroleum has two blocks offshore of Côte d'Ivoire for which the government of President Laurent Gbagbo received a welcome $1 mn...

President Laurent Gbagbo said that he was satisfied that they could meet without fighting...

In neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire xenophobia is rising against migrants visitors and northern Muslims whose leader Alassane Ouattara is the most credible challenger to President Laurent Gbagbo...

He joins the distinguished company of: Presidents Paul Kagame (Rwanda) and Laurent Gbagbo (Côte d'Ivoire); two serving Ivorian ministers Moïse Lida Kouassi (Defence) and Emile Boga Doudou (Interior); ex-dictators General Robert Gueï (Côte d'Ivoire) and Hissène Habré (Chad); and Congo-Kinshasa's ex-Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombassi...

Almost everything that could go wrong for President Laurent Gbagbo's national reconciliation conference in Abidjan is doing so (AC Vol 42 No 18)...

'There is no political crisis in Côte d'Ivoire ' President Laurent Gbagbo assured diplomats and politicians on 7 September...

For example Guy Labertit responsible for Africa in the governing Parti Socialiste is a long-time friend of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo...

Friendlier to President Laurent Gbagbo than most donors Paris has persuaded the European Union to offer vital budget support to Abidjan...

Gueï fearing arrest by President Laurent Gbagbo's government may have held on to some guns and ammunition for the 400 militiamen who guard him at his home village of Kabakouma near the Liberian border; his Yacouba people are related to the Gio and Mano Taylor's key supporters in the 1990-97 Liberian civil war...