Pascal Affi N'Guessan

Party leader Pascal Affi N'Guessan's statement that the FPI was withdrawing its seven ministers from the government set up under UN auspices prompted FPI associates the Jeune Patriotes to launch two days of protests against 'UN colonialism' in Abidjan...

The Secretary General of Gbagbo's Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) Pascal Affi N'guessan told Africa Confidential the FPI was looking forward to a second term so as to complete the programme of economic development already launched...

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...

After the breaking of the ceasefire a group of officers went to see the FPI leader and former Prime Minister Affi N'Guessan and said they wanted nothing to do with any return to the political violence and impunity of the early months of the crisis...

The FPI is also polarised between party President Pascal Affi N'Guessan who is close to Gbagbo and the powerful Speaker of Parliament Mamadou Koulibaly a northern Muslim who is close to the President's influential wife Simone...

Figures such as former Foreign Minister and party number two Abou Drahamane Sangaré and former Prime Minister Pascal Affi N'Guessan have been kept out...

FPI President and former Premier Pascal Affi N'Guessan represents the party's more moderate pragmatic tendency along with Finance Minister Paul Bohoun Bouabré...

The FPI delegation was led by Prime Minister Affi N'Guessan with party Secretary General Oureto Miaka ministers Hubert Oulaye and Alphonse Douaty and FPI official Masseni Touré...

The governance targets were set in February at a meeting with Premier Pascal Affi N'Guessan...

Prime Minister Pascal Affi N'Guessan told journalists he was happy with his talks in Brussels on 15 February...

The EU remains unconvinced that Affi N'Guessan's government will respect human rights...

Brussels wanted Affi N'Guessan to guarantee that future elections would be open to all...