Laurent Gbagbo

Most of Côte d'Ivoire's leading politicians will not be at President Laurent Gbagbo's national reconciliation conference planned for 9 July...

Paris is particularly keen to get British backing at the EU for renewed support for President Laurent Gbagbo's government in Côte d'Ivoire...

Inside delegates discussed a site for an emergency headquarters for the ADB in case Abidjan falls into chaos because of rivalry between supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo and opposition leader Alassane Ouattara (AC Vol 41 No 25)...

France at least backs President Laurent Gbagbo...

He has no special line even to former PS allies such as Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo or Senegal's ex-President Abdou Diouf nor does he seem to want them...

In private he is furious with Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo's belligerent attitude to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank - and the rest of the outside world...

At the same time across the border some 300 kilometres to the west a group of Ivorian soldiers was plotting to overthrow President Laurent Gbagbo's government in Abidjan...

To the south in Côte d'Ivoire Compaoré is regarded as a supporter of former Premier (and former Burkinabè citizen) Alassane Dramane Ouattara but as antagonistic towards the new President Laurent Gbagbo...

This is the poll in which Laurent Gbagbo of the Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) came to power with 59...

In the first two the victors are trying to consolidate power: in Senegal where Abdoulaye Wade won the presidency from incumbent Abdou Diouf in March and in Côte d'Ivoire still reeling from last month's coup de théâtre when supporters of Laurent Gbagbo chased out military leader General Robert Gueï...