Former parliamentary speaker Guillaume Soro also with youth appeal has announced his return from exile but like Gbagbo could see legal obstacles impede his presidential aspirations...

Tchogolo's capital Ferkessédougou is the old fief of the one major absentee in this year's contest: exiled former rebel leader former prime minister and ex-president of the Assemblée nationale Guillaume Soro...

His talk of 'respect for the victims' of those bloody crisis years echoed the request for public forgiveness from former rebel chief Guillaume Soro who is currently in exile...

He and Ouattara may have learnt the lessons of the latter's falling out with former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro now in exile and lost to the ruling RHDP camp...

The new number two took a break from his technocratic career path to acquire political experience in 2007-10 first as directeur de cabinet and then construction and urban development minister under former premier Guillaume Soro then premier in a national unity government...

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...

Tchogolo is combustible: it is not only the region where the Ouattaras have their ancestral home in Kong but it is also the stamping ground at Ferkessédougou of Ouattara's erstwhile ally now implacable enemy Guillaume Soro...

Once the now-exiled former parliamentary speaker Guillaume Soro looked like the shape of political things to come but no longer...

Notable losers in the elections included a key ally of former rebel leader Guillaume Soro Alain Lobognon who has been in jail since December 2020 for ‘plotting against state security'...

The insurgent potential of the army has been greatly reduced as ex-Prime Minister and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro found out when his November call to stage an uprising went unheeded but there remains a potential for mutiny...