Laurent Gbagbo

To the south in Côte d'Ivoire Compaoré is regarded as a supporter of former Premier (and former Burkinabè citizen) Alassane Dramane Ouattara but as antagonistic towards the new President Laurent Gbagbo...

This is the poll in which Laurent Gbagbo of the Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) came to power with 59...

In the first two the victors are trying to consolidate power: in Senegal where Abdoulaye Wade won the presidency from incumbent Abdou Diouf in March and in Côte d'Ivoire still reeling from last month's coup de théâtre when supporters of Laurent Gbagbo chased out military leader General Robert Gueï...

The flight of military leader General Robert Gueï to Benin and the assumption of the Presidency by Laurent Gbagbo the winner of the 22 October election solves one problem but creates several new ones...

Laurent Gbagbo of the Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) had not resigned from public office six months before the vote as the constitution requires...

Ouattara is unfazed: he says diplomatic passports don't confer nationality and in any case other leading politicians in the country such as Francis Wodié and Laurent Gbagbo have travelled respectively on Algerian and Burkinabè passports...

Guy Laberti an academic and an Africanist favours a proper election in Côte d'Ivoire to include Alassane Ouattara and Bédié - provided that Laurent Gbagbo wins...

Meanwhile the civilian presidential candidates Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) leader Laurent Gbagbo and Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) contender Alassane Ouattara quarrel over ministries in the army-backed transitional government; the barons of the once ruling Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire-Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (PDCI-RDA) are in shock having lost their perennial power...

The biggest opposition party Laurent Gbagbo's Front Populaire Ivoirien has refused to join...

Ouattara rivals veteran opponent Laurent Gbagbo (Front Patriotique Ivorien) in opinion polls...