Guillaume Kigbafori Soro

Gbagbo wants to show his domestic supporters that he's a serious international player but equally that he calls the shots in the cold (and occasionally hot) war with the Forces Nouvelles spearheaded by Guillaume Soro and the Mouvement Patriotique de Côte d'Ivoire...

A ceasefire signed on 3 May between Gbagbo and Guillaume Soro head of the Mouvement Patriotique de la Côte d'Ivoire (MPCI) and de facto ruler of the rebel-held north is in peril (AC Vol 44 No 18)...

Gbagbo told MPCI leader Guillaume Soro on 4 September 'If IB had carried out his coup it would be bad for me but it wouldn't be good for you either ' but Gbagbo is apparently hoping to win public sympathy by depicting himself as the victim of a vast plot by his opponents...

IB's relations with Ivorian opposition leader Alassane Ouattara have deteriorated and he is said to be jealous of Guillaume Soro head of the Mouvement Patriotique de la Côte d'Ivoire for taking the mantle he feels is rightly his...

Always highly political the Fédération Estudiantine et Scolaire de la Côte d'Ivoire (FESCI) has been given new significance by the elevation of its former leader Guillaume Soro to rebel chief Communications Minister and de facto ruler of northern Côte d'Ivoire...

He must take much of the blame for letting the ethnic genie out of the bottle and must now negotiate with Guillaume Soro Secretary General of the Mouvement Patriotique de la Côte d'Ivoire (MPCI) whom he detained in the mid-1990s when he was leader of the students' union the Fédération Estudiantine et Scolaire de la Côte d'Ivoire (FESCI)...