Laurent Gbagbo

Then with much diplomatic cunning Compaoré's offer of mediation in the drawn-out negotiations between the rebels and President Laurent Gbagbo's regime transformed him from rebel sponsor to regional peacemaker...

Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo has called the postcolonial defence agreements hypocritical but Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade fears countries could slide into civil war without the stabilising effect of French troops who dominate EU peacekeeping forces in Chad and CAR...

Yet no current leader - Presidents Laurent Gbagbo Paul Biya Blaise Compaoré or Denis Sassou-Nguesso - can fulfil the role pioneered by Côte d'Ivoire's President Félix Houphouët-Boigny and continued by the 'Grand Camarade'...

President Laurent Gbagbo (59) is a doctor of history of the Sorbonne France and a prolific author...

He said 'what differentiates the current peace process from earlier efforts is the fact that direct dialogue was offerend by President Laurent Gbagbo and accepted by the FN - the two principal belligerents...

Laurent Gbagbo is hostile to him partly due to the arrest of Michel Gbagbo his oldest son after a peaceful demonstration when Ouattara was Premier under Houphouët-Boigny...

President Laurent Gbagbo and the ex-rebel Prime Minister Guillaume Soro agreed last summer that enough money was available but that it does not reach the workers on the ground...

Whether the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo the northern leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara or the leader of the former single party the Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire Henri Konan Bédié wins China is keen to show that it will be a faithful friend...

The postponements have dragged on since 2005 when President Laurent Gbagbo completed his constitutional term...

President Laurent Gbagbo 63 was a university teacher and trade unionist who was imprisoned and exiled for opposing Houphouët-Boigny...

Many Abidjanais link Tommy to President Laurent Gbagbo's government although it blames the then Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny for the environmental crisis...

President Laurent Gbagbo assured representatives of the United Nations Security Council - on a flying visit to Abidjan on 9 June - that the November election deadline would hold...