Laurent Gbagbo

Unlike his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo Ouattara has invested heavily in a free market model for the economy for which he needs confidence in his country and the money that flows from it; neither has been forthcoming...

On 22 November the Court also published an arrest warrant for Simone Gbagbo wife of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo; he is in the Hague awaiting trial...

On the West African side Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara as new Chairman of Ecowas is the titular leader of the intervention but he faces a new insurgency at home from forces loyal to ousted President Laurent Gbagbo...

On 12 October the United Nations Security Council discussed a worrying report by a UN Group of Experts that says that supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo are bent on destabilising the government of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

Former President Laurent Gbagbo’s loyalists fled to Ghana in droves when he was finally deposed in April 2011...

There are close ties between the Krahn people in Liberia and the Guéré in western Côte d’Ivoire who mostly backed ousted President Laurent Gbagbo...

He says African leaders should focus on problems such as Western powers’ encroachment on African space as in the toppling of Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi and the French-backed military intervention in Côte d’Ivoire after President Laurent Gbagbo refused to leave power...

To Ouattara's dismay South Africa tried to use the AU to countermand Ecowas action against his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo who had refused to recognise Ouattara's election victory in November 2010...

His predecessor Laurent Gbagbo is already a prisoner of the International Criminal Court in The Hague accused of human rights violations...

Togo arrested ex-President Laurent Gbagbo's Defence Minister Moïse Lida Kouassi on 6 June and deported him to Côte d'Ivoire on suspicion of attempting to destabilise President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's government...