Simone Ehivet Gbagbo

The Front Populaire Ivoirien especially its hard line led by the President's powerful wife Simone Gbagbo and the likes of FPI Secretary General Sylvain Miaka Ouretto makes no secret of its opposition to the national unity government in which it holds ten posts...

His wife Simone Ehivet is to his left (a cross between Danielle Mitterrand and Hillary Clinton) and is effectively party number two...

A car crash involving Gbagbo and his wife Simone Gbagbo has taken them both out of politics for the past three months...