Laurent Gbagbo

For example Guy Labertit responsible for Africa in the governing Parti Socialiste is a long-time friend of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo...

Friendlier to President Laurent Gbagbo than most donors Paris has persuaded the European Union to offer vital budget support to Abidjan...

Gueï fearing arrest by President Laurent Gbagbo's government may have held on to some guns and ammunition for the 400 militiamen who guard him at his home village of Kabakouma near the Liberian border; his Yacouba people are related to the Gio and Mano Taylor's key supporters in the 1990-97 Liberian civil war...

Most of Côte d'Ivoire's leading politicians will not be at President Laurent Gbagbo's national reconciliation conference planned for 9 July...

Paris is particularly keen to get British backing at the EU for renewed support for President Laurent Gbagbo's government in Côte d'Ivoire...

Inside delegates discussed a site for an emergency headquarters for the ADB in case Abidjan falls into chaos because of rivalry between supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo and opposition leader Alassane Ouattara (AC Vol 41 No 25)...

France at least backs President Laurent Gbagbo...

He has no special line even to former PS allies such as Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo or Senegal's ex-President Abdou Diouf nor does he seem to want them...

In private he is furious with Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo's belligerent attitude to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank - and the rest of the outside world...

At the same time across the border some 300 kilometres to the west a group of Ivorian soldiers was plotting to overthrow President Laurent Gbagbo's government in Abidjan...