Simone Ehivet Gbagbo

LiabilitiesThis leaves an alliance with former First Lady Simone Gbagbo who broadcasts her loyalty to the FPI but occupies no formal position in her husband's party...

In such a situation Ouattara does have the advantage of incumbency: as the current head of state he is the man with the power to grant amnesty – as he did for Gbagbo's wife Simone Gbagbo last August – or invite his predecessor to return home...

All this has brought the former First Lady Simone Gbagbo released on August 6 back under the spotlight...

Most likely the talk will have been on the status of the former First Lady Simone Ehivet Gbagbo...

His wife Simone Gbagbo was hastily convicted in Abidjan earlier this year and this month sees another trial this time against nine officers of Gbagbo's security forces accused of human rights abuses...

The FPI fundamentalists did not even wait a few days for the verdicts in the trials in Côte d'Ivoire of ex-First Lady Simone Gbagbo and her husband's top military commanders before sacking N'Guessan...

The trial date has yet to be set but a tussle is already under way over who should try Gbagbo's wife Simone Ehivet Gbagbo: the ICC wants to bring her to the Hague and Abidjan wants to try her at home...

Gbagbo's wife Simone Gbagbo who is still held in the northern town of Odienne was demoted in the new Secretariat to which she reacted angrily resigning all her posts on 8 July...

The media that support Gbagbo cheer at every setback the Court suffers and complain about the continued incarceration of his wife Simone Gbagbo in Côte d'Ivoire...

On 22 November the Court also published an arrest warrant for Simone Gbagbo wife of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo; he is in the Hague awaiting trial...