Laurent Gbagbo

Many in the Francophone African exile community have been unusually supportive of Laurent Gbagbo in spite of his sanguinary reputation and with few doubts about the fairness of the Ivorian poll...

Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos is one of the staunchest supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo along with sundry Israeli and Russian officials...

Politicians are closely watching developments in Côte d’Ivoire where Laurent Gbagbo insisting he is still President is up against regional groups and the United Nations who say he lost the recent election and must step down...

The AU and UN firmly oppose Laurent Gbagbo’s refusal to accept election defeat and Ravalomanana’s supporters in SADC may demand a similarly uncompromising rejection of Rajoelina’s election plans...

The charge was aired in a French television documentary on Françafrique recently and Obame has been making direct comparisons with the situation in Côte d’Ivoire with Ali Bongo in the role of Laurent Gbagbo and Obame as Alassane Ouattara...

Senegal condemned Laurent Gbagbo’s long stand-off in Côte d’Ivoire after he lost the November 2010 elections...

Nigeria urged Laurent Gbagbo to quit after losing Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential election...

The Commission Electorale Indépendante may have declared Ouattara (‘ADO’) winner of the presidential election but President Laurent Gbagbo has yet to agree (AC Vol 51 No 23)...

In the north clearly Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) will win while President Laurent Gbagbo will take the Bete vote in the west and many votes in Abidjan the commercial capital...

Incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo (who won 38...