Laurent Gbagbo

After Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo visited Conakry twice in three weeks in April and May rumours were rife that he planned to attack the northern rebels via Guinea...

A United NationsSecurity Council mission arrived on 22 June and the UN threatensa travel ban on figures in Laurent Gbagbo's inner circle though not the President himself...

President Laurent Gbagbo's Bété andallied ethnic groups (Agni Atié Dida and Guéré) now dominate the security apparatus which operates outside the official chain of command leaving Army Chief of Staff General Mathias Doué and ground forces commander Gen...

Anti-French and anti-UN sentiment among supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo has also been fuelled by the UN investigators' criticism of the security forces...

The 4 500 French troops operating alongside the UN mission have no presence in Gagnoa the heart of President Laurent Gbagbo's home region and have been underplaying the land conflict while talking up disarmament...

Opposition parties and rebel groups have formed a common front against President Laurent Gbagbo and his militias after scores of people were killed when police fired on demonstrators on 25 March...

Ivorian sponsorship of Model is mirrored by Guinean sponsorship of LURD and the possibility of Model fighters being called into action at short notice in support of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo cannot be ruled out...

Paris will keep up diplomatic pressure to implement the Marcoussis Accord although the government has less than 20 months to demobilise fighters remake the nationality law draw up new electoral registers and revise land ownership provisions which parliament dominated by President Laurent Gbagbo's rivals in the Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire may stall...

President Laurent Gbagbo's state visit to France now rescheduled for sometime in January will test diplomatic limits on both sides...

Lieutenant Zadi's forcible interruption of state television programmes on 30 November to demand the withdrawal of French troops may presage a new offensive by loyalists of President Laurent Gbagbo against rebel forces in Bouake...