In 2024 it dissolved several student bodies including the notorious Fédération estudiantine et scolaire de Côte d'Ivoire whose former leaders include rebel leader Guillaume Kigbafori Soro and militia leader Charles Blé Goudé a Gbagbo backer...

As CAP-CI's leader Thiam would have known the coalition includes two of Gbagbo's fiercest rivals: his former youth minister Charles Blé Goudé – also struck from the register – and his ex-wife Simone Ehivet Gbagbo now CAP-CI's principal spokeswoman...

Along with Thiam former President Laurent Gbagbo his ally Charles Blé Goudé and former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro have been barred from running for the Presidency...

Next came the protests over the exclusion of former President Laurent Gbagbo his youth minister Charles Blé Goudé and ex-president of the Ivorian parliament Guillaume Soro from the list of eligible presidential candidates...

The coalition also includes Simone Gbagbo the ex-wife of former President Laurent Gbagbo and his former youth leader Charles Blé Goudé...

Completing the near-total collapse of the Left in Côte d'Ivoire neither Gbagbo's ex-wife Simone Ehivet nor his former youth leader Charles Blé Goudé have been able to impress anyone...

Two other political operators will be testing the electoral waters even if they are not fielding candidates: Ex-President Gbagbo's ex-wife Simone Ehivet Gbagbo and her Mouvement des générations capables (MGC) created last August and former youth minister Charles Blé Goudé with his revived Congrès panafricain pour la justice et l'egalité des peuples are holding mass rallies and getting good attendances (AC Vol 55 No 7 Who will follow Blé Goudé to the Hague...

Eight years after being transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and almost two years after his final acquittal for crimes against humanity Charles Blé Goudé the once fiery leader of the Jeune Patriotes youth movement set a measured tone as he returned home to Abidjan on 26 November...

The most important are Gbagbo's ex-wife Simone Ehivet Gbagbo or the two most prominent younger politicians: former youth minister Charles Blé Goudé (still living in the Netherlands after his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity); or Guillaume Soro currently in forced exile in France but plotting his return...

He will run in 2025 on a left-of-centre anti-western ticket hoping to attract the youth vote he used to be able to mobilise through his now estranged lieutenant Charles Blé Goudé...