Laurent Gbagbo

That meeting pitted Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (who backs Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) as the Ivorian election winner) against South African President Jacob Zuma (who sees a strong French hand behind the campaign against Laurent Gbagbo)...

Europe is adding its own sanctions to the pressure on President Laurent Gbagbo from Africa's regional organisations to force him to stand down in the post-election stand off...

Alassane Ouattara had sent a letter to the organisation of cocoa exporters the Bourse du Café et du Cacao saying that paying tax to Laurent Gbagbo who refuses to quit the presidency was illegal and that exporters who defied his ban could be prosecuted by local and international courts...

Many in the Francophone African exile community have been unusually supportive of Laurent Gbagbo in spite of his sanguinary reputation and with few doubts about the fairness of the Ivorian poll...

Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos is one of the staunchest supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo along with sundry Israeli and Russian officials...

Politicians are closely watching developments in Côte d’Ivoire where Laurent Gbagbo insisting he is still President is up against regional groups and the United Nations who say he lost the recent election and must step down...

The AU and UN firmly oppose Laurent Gbagbo’s refusal to accept election defeat and Ravalomanana’s supporters in SADC may demand a similarly uncompromising rejection of Rajoelina’s election plans...

The charge was aired in a French television documentary on Françafrique recently and Obame has been making direct comparisons with the situation in Côte d’Ivoire with Ali Bongo in the role of Laurent Gbagbo and Obame as Alassane Ouattara...

Senegal condemned Laurent Gbagbo’s long stand-off in Côte d’Ivoire after he lost the November 2010 elections...

Nigeria urged Laurent Gbagbo to quit after losing Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential election...