Laurent Gbagbo

Earlier plans stagnated firstly because of civil conflict and then because they did not fit with the system of patronage of former President Laurent Gbagbo...

Davis came under attack for supporting dictators: he also took on Laurent Gbagbo for a time while the ousted Ivorian President was disputing the presidential election...

Ex-President Laurent Gbagbo’s trial at the Hague may raise ethnic and political tension but if President Alassane Dramane Ouattara can keep the lid on this the promising economic prospects may help the country to recover well from the recent violence...

Former President Laurent Gbagbo despite his populist anti-French rhetoric favoured French companies...

Tata had signed its deal with the state-run Société pour le Développement Minier de la Côte d’Ivoire (Sodemi) in 2007 under former President Laurent Gbagbo...

The arrest of former President Laurent Gbagbo by the International Criminal Court and his rendition to the Hague on 30 November prompted surprisingly little protest given that 46% of Ivorians had voted for him in elections almost exactly a year ago...

The International Criminal Court may have accelerated the arrest and rendition of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo to the Hague because of the discovery of an apparent plot to spring him from house arrest in the northern town of Korhogo we hear...

This cleared the old colonial power’s troops to go in: their firepower settled the issue and captured Laurent Gbagbo...

Luanda appears willing to forget its past strong support for Côte d’Ivoire’s then President Laurent Gbagbo and reconcile with his successor Alassane Dramane Ouattara but there is much to forgive say sources in both countries (AC Vol 52 No 20 New leaf)...

More information is emerging about ex-President Laurent Gbagbo’s former Youth Minister Charles Blé Goudé leader of the Jeunes Patriotes...