Henri Konan Bédié

Former President Henri Konan Bédié has emerged from internal exile in his home village of Daoukro to act as their frontman...

Gbagbo's inner security circle includes Captain Paulin Gnatoa Katet at the Groupe de Sécurité du Président de la République (GSPR) a Dida; Lieutenant Colonel Philippe Mangou operations commander at Yamoussoukro close to former President Henri Konan Bédié but sidelined under late military leader Gen...

The government put the death toll at 36; former President Henri Konan Bédié claimed up to 500 had been shot dead...

IB played a leading role in the December 1999 coup that toppled President Henri Konan Bédié and is assumed to have been behind the 19 September 2002 rebellion though both he and the former rebel leaders now in government deny it...

A leader of the 1999 coup that toppled President Henri Konan Bédié and a key figure behind the September 2002 rebellion IB left his Burkina Faso refuge for France on 20 August after falling out with President Blaise Compaoré...

Gaston Ouassenan Koné was proposed but he proved controversial because he heads the parliamentary group of former President Henri Konan Bédié's Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) which would give the former single party an extra seat...

Former President Henri Konan Bédié is in Paris and Laurent Dona Fologo has been shunted upstairs to the advisory Conseil Economique et Social where he can mourn the welcome for foreigners preached by Côte d'Ivoire's first President Félix Houphouët-Boigny without rocking the boat...

Former President Henri Konan Bédié who wants his old job back curiously defended the 'beauty' of the original concept of Ivoirité...

One striking image from his visit to Abidjan was a photograph of De Villepin with Gbagbo and former President Henri Konan Bédié...

Henri Konan Bédié the former president toppled by Gueï and head of the once monolithic PDCI is surprisingly quiet in his opulent lagoon-side home...