Laurent Gbagbo

The flight of military leader General Robert Gueï to Benin and the assumption of the Presidency by Laurent Gbagbo the winner of the 22 October election solves one problem but creates several new ones...

Laurent Gbagbo of the Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) had not resigned from public office six months before the vote as the constitution requires...

Ouattara is unfazed: he says diplomatic passports don't confer nationality and in any case other leading politicians in the country such as Francis Wodié and Laurent Gbagbo have travelled respectively on Algerian and Burkinabè passports...

Guy Laberti an academic and an Africanist favours a proper election in Côte d'Ivoire to include Alassane Ouattara and Bédié - provided that Laurent Gbagbo wins...

Meanwhile the civilian presidential candidates Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) leader Laurent Gbagbo and Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) contender Alassane Ouattara quarrel over ministries in the army-backed transitional government; the barons of the once ruling Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire-Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (PDCI-RDA) are in shock having lost their perennial power...

The biggest opposition party Laurent Gbagbo's Front Populaire Ivoirien has refused to join...

Ouattara rivals veteran opponent Laurent Gbagbo (Front Patriotique Ivorien) in opinion polls...

Laurent Gbagbo of the Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) and Djeni Kobina of the Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) (a vehicle for the absent Ouattara) regard this as a trap...

Guéi a Yacouba who comes from the same part of the western region as oppositionist Laurent Gbagbo has been accused of supporting ex-Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara now a Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund in Washington...

Coulibaly has been suspicious of Kobina's attempts to push the RDR to the left in particular its alliance with Laurent Gbagbo's FPI...