Laurent Gbagbo

Two serving African Presidents Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta and Sudan's Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and one former President Côte d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo have been charged with crimes against humanity at the ICC...

On the same day judges at the ICC told Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda that the case against Laurent Gbagbo the deposed President of Côte d’Ivoire was not strong enough to go to trial...

Duékoué was a stronghold of support for Ouattara’s foe ex-President Laurent Gbagbo now on trial at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity (see Feature)...

Pro-Laurent Gbagbo forces have hired ex-civil war guerrillas to carry out attacks in western Côte d’Ivoire and before the elections in both Sierra Leone and Liberia there was great concern about the potential threat from demobilised fighters...

Compaoré’s ties with the commanders of the Ivorian rebellion in 2002 their leader Guillaume Soro and with Alassane Dramane Ouattara now President rendered him suspect as a mediator in Côte d’Ivoire’s crisis in the eyes of the supporters of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo...

Rebel infrastructure backing ex-President Laurent Gbagbo has been reorganised and unexpected new alliances forged...

On the surface they have little to do with the two main political currents President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s coalition and the Front populaire ivoirien (FPI) of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo who now awaits trial for human rights violations at the International Criminal Court...

In Divo a stronghold of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo two candidates will run as independents while the PDCI and RDR have fielded one each...

Their script albeit more sophisticated borrows heavily from the nationalist rhetoric of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and Côte d’Ivoire’s Laurent Gbagbo (who now faces trial at the ICC after his successor Alassane Dramane Ouattara handed him over)...

After years of rivalry in the region the West African-French military operation pushes Nigeria which backed French action against President Laurent Gbagbo in Côte d’Ivoire in the country’s 2010-2011 post-election crisis into alliance with France again...