Mamadou Koulibaly

It is built around the Sangaré faction of the former ruling Front populaire ivoirien but lacks the very active campaigner and former Gbagbo ally Mamadou Koulibaly of the left-of-centre Liberté et démocratie pour la République (LIDER)...

The Front Populaire Ivoirien split down the middle and recovering from a bruising defeat in the last legislative elections has yet to find its feet and may find itself overtaken by Liberté et Démocratie pour la République (LIDER) a more radical voice led by Mamadou Koulibaly who was Speaker of Parliament during most of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo's presidency (AC Vol 56 No 22 Ouattara walks it)...

As he withdrew the President of the National Assembly under Gbagbo Mamadou Koulibaly cited the inequality of the electoral battle (AC Vol 56 No 12 CNC: who is who...

Another is that of Mamadou Koulibaly the firebrand leader of the self-declared progressive but heavily Gbagbo-aligned Liberté et démocratie pour la République (Lider AC Vol 52 No 24 Gbagbo to the Hague nation to the polls)...

A strong contender to win over more moderate FPI supporters is Mamadou Koulibaly...

The de facto Assembly Speaker Mamadou Koulibaly a former FPI man has formed his own party Liberté et démocratie pour la république (Lider AC Vol 52 No 19 Economy recovers security wobbles)...

Gbagbo avoids open nepotism or tribalism but Tagro a Bete like the President escaped unhurt following accusations by National Assembly President Mamadou Koulibaly that he had embezzled public funds (including from the US$198 million paid out by Trafigura to victims of its toxic waste dumping) and dipped into the 10 billion CFA francs set aside by a French company the Société d’Applications Générales de l’Électricité et de la Mécanique for the production of polling cards...

His party's newspaper claims China and Russia oppose a Security Council proposal to sanction Affi N'Guessan and Speaker Mamadou Koulibaly...

'The crisis now taking place in Côte d'Ivoire is nothing other than a crisis of independence against a colonial even imperial power' says Mamadou Koulibaly the parliamentary Speaker and so the country's second-ranking politician...

Antoine Ahua Junior an advisor to the ultra-nationalist Speaker of Parliament Mamadou Koulibaly was arrested in Abidjan on 9 April after calling on the loyalist army to take up arms against the UN force...