Guillaume Kigbafori Soro

The main protagonists will be Guillaume Soro current Speaker of the National Assembly and Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko...

Zakaria Koné a commander at the Akouédo military camp in Abidjan who once held the north-western towns of Vavoua and Séguéla under his boot for the rebel Forces nouvelles; and former FN leader Guillaume Soro himself currently Speaker of the Ivorian Parliament...

Compaoré's support for the former Forces nouvelles guerrillas in northern Côte d'Ivoire was the foundation of his warm relations today with President Alassane Ouattara and Parliament Speaker Guillaume Soro...

Also excluded were Komboïgo's close friend and CDP Vice-Chairperson Fatoumata Diallo Diendéré wife of the General and Djibril Yipènè Bassolé formerly Foreign Minister and diplomatic liaison with – among others – the Ivorian former rebel leader Guillaume Soro who is now Speaker of his country's Parliament...

In the RDR there is a growing determination to block the ascent of former rebel leader ex-Prime Minister and current President of the National Assembly Guillaume Kigbafori Soro (AC Vol 48 No 20 The 'Soro ranks')...

The alliance of convenience between Ouattara and the man who helped to secure the military side of his political victory during the 2010-11 post-election crisis is coming to an end: Ouattara needs to put more distance between himself and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro now President of the National Assembly...

Ouattara heads an uneasy coalition which prominently includes Guillaume Soro now Speaker of Parliament (and therefore heir to the presidency if the incumbent is incapacitated) but formerly head of the Forces nouvelles (FN) northern guerrillas loyal to Ouattara...

He is close to both the Ivorian President and Speaker of Parliament Guillaume Soro and will be able to discreetly continue his numerous business activities from Abidjan...

The former leader of the Forces nouvelles militia Guillaume Kigbafori Soro who is now Speaker of the National Assembly loathes him...

A low-key campaign to have Soro positioned as Ouattara's successor in the RDR run by the Coalition nationale des mouvements de soutien à Guillaume Soro and led by Ahmadou Bamba is making little headway...

Chief among those running that military campaign was the current National Assembly Speaker Guillaume Soro whose activities over the previous decade are the subject of an large file at the United Nations...

Meanwhile attempts by the President to enlist help from his old friends in Côte d'Ivoire President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and National Assembly Speaker and former warlord Guillaume Soro have backfired...