Sall has yet to match Wade’s exhausting diplomatic forays but has worked discreetly on reducing tension in Côte d’Ivoire between President Alassane Ouattara and supporters of ousted President Laurent Gbagbo...
A fervent supporter of ousted President Laurent Gbagbo Blé Goudé could face trial at home and eventually at the International Criminal Court...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 4 |
- MALI
- ASIA
Even though the United Nations gave the green light for French military action to help oust election loser Laurent Gbagbo in 2011 South Africa and Angola made clear they would have preferred a negotiated settlement which China had also been advocating...
Vol 53 No 25 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Unlike his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo Ouattara has invested heavily in a free market model for the economy for which he needs confidence in his country and the money that flows from it; neither has been forthcoming...
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...
Vol 53 No 21 |
- WEST AFRICA
On the West African side Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara as new Chairman of Ecowas is the titular leader of the intervention but he faces a new insurgency at home from forces loyal to ousted President Laurent Gbagbo...
Vol 53 No 21 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
On 12 October the United Nations Security Council discussed a worrying report by a UN Group of Experts that says that supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo are bent on destabilising the government of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara...
Vol 53 No 21 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Former President Laurent Gbagbo’s loyalists fled to Ghana in droves when he was finally deposed in April 2011...
There are close ties between the Krahn people in Liberia and the Guéré in western Côte d’Ivoire who mostly backed ousted President Laurent Gbagbo...
Vol 53 No 17 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
He says African leaders should focus on problems such as Western powers’ encroachment on African space as in the toppling of Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi and the French-backed military intervention in Côte d’Ivoire after President Laurent Gbagbo refused to leave power...