Henri Konan Bédié

His two main opponents former President Henri Konan Bédié and ex-Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara are in Paris working on joint strategy in the 'G7' opposition alliance that aims to force out Gbagbo...

Due to attend are President Laurent Gbagbo opposition leader Alassane Ouattara former President Henri Konan Bédié and Guillaume Soro leader of the ex-rebel Forces Nouvelles...

Former President Henri Konan Bédié says he will seek nomination so there is no prospect of the G7 opposition alliance uniting behind a single first round candidate...

The RDR headquarters was torched and the homes of Alphonse Djédjé Mady Secretary General of Henri Konan Bédié's Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire and Justice Minister Henriette Diabaté the RDR Secretary General were looted...

Former President Henri Konan Bédié has emerged from internal exile in his home village of Daoukro to act as their frontman...

Gbagbo's inner security circle includes Captain Paulin Gnatoa Katet at the Groupe de Sécurité du Président de la République (GSPR) a Dida; Lieutenant Colonel Philippe Mangou operations commander at Yamoussoukro close to former President Henri Konan Bédié but sidelined under late military leader Gen...

The government put the death toll at 36; former President Henri Konan Bédié claimed up to 500 had been shot dead...

IB played a leading role in the December 1999 coup that toppled President Henri Konan Bédié and is assumed to have been behind the 19 September 2002 rebellion though both he and the former rebel leaders now in government deny it...

A leader of the 1999 coup that toppled President Henri Konan Bédié and a key figure behind the September 2002 rebellion IB left his Burkina Faso refuge for France on 20 August after falling out with President Blaise Compaoré...

Gaston Ouassenan Koné was proposed but he proved controversial because he heads the parliamentary group of former President Henri Konan Bédié's Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) which would give the former single party an extra seat...