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Côte d’Ivoire

Laurent Gbagbo

Date of Birth: 31 May 1945
Place of Birth: Mama village, near Gagnoa


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Gbagbo bids to be last 'dinosaur' standing

Former President Laurent Gbagbo appears determined not to quit the political scene just yet after being named as presidential candidate for next year's elections by his Parti des peuples africains – Côte d'Ivoire (PPA-CI) on 10 May...

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All eyes on 2025 – and the northern border

With the near-annihilation of former president Laurent Gbagbo's Parti des peuples africains – Côte d'Ivoire (PPA-CI) during local by-elections in September last year (the party failed to gain a seat in Gbagbo's stronghold of Guémon and Gbagbo's son Michel lost his mayoral seat in the Abidjan suburb of Yopougon to the RHDP) the PPA-CI has lost almost all momentum...

Only Soro and former President Laurent Gbagbo are on record for their repeated support for the three military juntas but while Gbagbo is a spent force Soro has known credentials as an organiser of armed rebellions and is in possession of a network mostly in Burkina Faso...


What hope for the juntas' promised elections?

The death in 2023 of one former rival Henri Konan Bédié and the uncertain electoral appeal and civil status of his other key counterpart Laurent Gbagbo might persuade him to hand over to a younger generation something he had said was necessary before the 2020 election before changing his mind and running again after the sudden death of his planned successor Amadou Gon Coulibaly...


Will Tidjane Thiam's 'grand retour' succeed?

Although regularly touted as a potential next generation national leader he signalled no interest in returning to a political arena still dominated by incumbent president Alassane Ouattara and his predecessor and rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Bédié...


Football before politics

No formal announcements have been made but it is almost certain that the men many call the 'three dinosaurs' (Ouattara Henri Konan Bédié and Laurent Gbagbo) will run yet again to the frustration of many...


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The political class makes up with itself

Former First lady Simone Ehivet Gbagbo ex-wife of former President Laurent Gbagbo is asking for 'forgiveness from the whole nation and from all those who suffered who lost parents jobs and were forced into exile ' as a result of political violence in 2002 and 2010...

Days earlier Pascal Affi N'Guessan a former ally Laurent Gbagbo and leader of the opposition Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) founded by the Gbagbos struck a 'partnership' deal with President Alassane Ouattara (AC Vol 62 No 13 Old foes re-enter the ring)...

Laurent Gbagbo former president and deadly foe of Ouattara welcomes the idea arguing that Soro should have the 'opportunity to participate in the process of national reconciliation...

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Can Macron's new Sahel strategy work?

And at Port Bouët beside Abidjan airport 900 French troops are based under a 2012 partnership agreement which came just after Paris helped President Alassane Ouattara's forces to victory over those of President Laurent Gbagbo in the unrest that followed the presidential election (AC Vol 52 No 18 Gbagbo: France's part in his downfall)...


Rebel returns home

The conditions for his return had been carefully negotiated as President Alassane Ouattara sought assurances from a man whose identity politics rhetoric used to mobilise southern youth behind then President Laurent Gbagbo at the height of the Ivorian national crisis (AC Vol 63 No 1 Après nous le déluge...


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