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Côte d’Ivoire

Laurent Gbagbo

Date of Birth: 31 May 1945
Place of Birth: Mama village, near Gagnoa


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Coulibaly: Death of a rebel

There is no question that Coulibaly’s arrival in Abidjan last December and his command of clandestine military operations against the regime of Laurent Gbagbo helped turn events in favour of Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)...


Beau Blaise loses it

Compaoré worked as a mediator in Côte d’Ivoire and urged ex-President Laurent Gbagbo to submit to the election last year...


A resolution in Abidjan

The armed eviction of Laurent Gbagbo from the Ivorian presidency by a coalition of opposition United Nations and French forces together with the organisation of national elections in Nigeria make this one of the most momentous weeks in West African politics for a decade or more...


Zuma’s presidential primary

However he attracted heavy regional criticism for backing Laurent Gbagbo in Côte d’Ivoire against the internationally recognised election winner Alassane Dramane Ouattara...


Guns, votes and cocoa

Trade sources in Moscow and London report that business allies of Laurent Gbagbo have begun exporting cocoa out of the port of San Pedro in defiance of President-elect Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s export ban...


Peering into the abyss

Officials may be hoping that the weight of sanctions will have driven out Laurent Gbagbo by then (AC Vol 52 No 3 & AC Vol 52 No 4)...


Democracy standoff

The bitter rivalry between presidential claimants Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Dramane Ouattara has come to personify the arguments over how to manage elections in Africa and beyond...


Cairo tactics

Some point to Museveni’s support for Laurent Gbagbo defeated in the second round of the Ivorian election but refusing to quit...


Rewards and realpolitik

'A deferral of the Sudanese President's case ' says Baldo 'would be a serious blow to accountability and send the wrong message to regimes that abuse human rights such as Côte d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe...


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