Charles Blé Goudé

Among the President’s hardliners Charles Blé Goudé leader of the pro-FPI militias loudly proclaims his dissatisfaction with the electoral commission and so does the Congrès National de la Résistance pour la Démocratie (CNRD) led by the writer Bernard Binlin Dadié who stands up for ‘Ivoirité’...

Charles Blé Goudé and his Jeunes Patriotes (Young Patriots) will also want a role in the elections...

This rabid nationalism is the source of Gbagbo's power and that of the Jeunes Patriotes led by the charismatic xenophobe Charles Blé Goudé...

The loyalist soldiers concerned - popularly referred to as the 'Génération Blé Goudé' after the militant youth leader Charles Blé Goudé who inspired them - angrily reject any idea of being forced out of the army...

The daily Matin d'Abidjan close to Jeunes Patriotes' leader Charles Blé Goudé is already blaming the attack on General Mathias Doué the army chief who was sacked after President Laurent Gbagbo launched a failed attack against northern rebels in November 2004...

Those named are the Young Patriots' supremo 'General' Charles Blé Goudé his more overtly radical rival 'Marshal' Eugène Djué and northern rebel Fofie Kouakou...

No demos only celebrations Demonstrations against Gbagbo are banned but Charles Blé Goudé leader of the Jeunes Patriotes (a recruiting ground for Gbagbo's militias) says the rally he plans is not political but sporting to celebrate the national football team's qualification for the World Cup which will be held in Germany next year...

The travel ban is likely to include such figures as Gbagbo himself his influential wife Simone who heads the Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) in parliament and so has an important role in the passage of legal reforms Coulibaly Charles Blé Goudé leader of the Jeunes Patriotes militia Genevieve Bro Grébé head of the Femmes Patriotes and FPI leader Pascal Affi N'Guessan...

Leading loyalists including Charles Blé Goudé leader of the Jeunes Patriotes militia and Geneviève Bro-Grebe leader of the Femmes Patriotes demand that the UN disarm the rebels by the end of the month...