Guillaume Kigbafori Soro

Former parliamentary speaker Guillaume Soro convicted in absentia on graft charges and sentenced to 20 years' jail is exiled in France...

Adding to that was the conviction in absentia on 28 April of the exiled former parliamentary speaker Guillaume Soro shutting him out of the presidential race...

Then the popular national assembly speaker Guillaume Soro resigned to launch his own presidential campaign and political movement...

Prevented from re-entering his country Guillaume Soro remains determined to stand in the presidential election (AC Vol 61 No 1 Portents over the presidency)...

Guillaume Soro the former militia leader and the only politician yet to have declared his intention to stand was flying to Abidjan from Paris on 23 December when his private jet diverted to Accra after Soro learned of what he claimed was a planned attack on him on arrival in Abidjan...

Members of Côte d'Ivoire's National Assembly have been in session this week for the first time under the new Parliamentary Speaker Amadou Soumahoro installed by the ruling Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix (RHDP) to replace Guillaume Soro who quit the chair in February to launch his opposition career (AC Vol 60 No 4 All bets are off)...

Ouattara has lost his most charismatic if controversial potential heir – Guillaume Soro...

Soro threatOpinions are divided over whether Guillaume Soro has a real chance of victory next year...

On 8 February Guillaume Soro finally left his post as Speaker of parliament after he failed to show up for the RHDP founding rally...

These were hitherto seen as the RDR's Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly or Defence Minister Hamed Bakayoko and the PDCI vice-president Daniel Kablan Duncan or Energy Minister Thierry Tanoh or even the increasingly estranged Parliamentary Speaker Guillaume Soro (nominally RDR) (AC Vol 59 No 3 Jockeying for position and Vol 59 No 14 Move over grandad)...

The three protagonists will be former rebel leader and current Parliament Speaker Guillaume Soro defence minister and former presidential favourite Hamed Bakayoko and the latest anointed heir Amadou Gon Coulibaly the current Prime Minister...

The joker in the pack is Guillaume Soro Gbagbo's former Prime Minister Parliament Speaker and Bédié ally who has just revived his Union des Soroïstes (AC Vol 59 No 14 Move over grandad) the clearest sign yet that he will run on his own ticket in 2020...