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...

Supporters of Charles Blé Goudé – a street politician-turned-minister who was tried and acquitted alongside Gbagbo in The Hague – stood for election as part of a loose coalition called Ensemble pour Bâtir that won eight seats in the Abidjan district of Yopougon...

This time it's the Court's surprise decision on 29 May to lift its travel restrictions on former President Laurent Gbagbo and his ally Charles Blé Goudé as they await the outcome of the prosecution's appeal against their acquittal...

Less than a week later the International Criminal Court confirmed the acquittal of former President Laurent Gbagbo and his Youth Minister Charles Blé Goudé on charges of crimes against humanity prompting simultaneous scenes in Abdijan of jubilation and dismay...

Another opposition political operator believes he has seized the opportunity presented by the demise of the FPI: Charles Blé Goudé...

Guillaume Soro (FESCI President 1995-98) and Charles Blé Goudé (FESCI President 1998-2000) were frères ennemis (brothers at war)...