Laurent Gbagbo

Côte d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo relates to almost any beleaguered leader...

Due to attend are President Laurent Gbagbo opposition leader Alassane Ouattara former President Henri Konan Bédié and Guillaume Soro leader of the ex-rebel Forces Nouvelles...

President Laurent Gbagbo is heading for another showdown with France...

Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo pushed through the new laws required by the Marcoussis and Accra peace accords in time to ward off UN sanctions in December but still wants a referendum on the change to Article 35 of the constitution that will enable opposition leader Alassane Ouattara to stand for president...

The big guns of the African Union have lost patience with President Laurent Gbagbo...

President Laurent Gbagbo may have helped that process along on 13 November when he sacked General Mathias Doué and replaced him with Colonel Philippe Mangou the Commander of the Yamoussoukro region who led the assault on the French base in Bouaké on 6 November...

By bombing the French military base at Bouaké chasing French citizens out of Abidjan and burning down their schools in the capital President Laurent Gbagbo has wrecked one of his few remaining assets the backing of France's opposition Parti Socialiste (PS)...

The harmony may not last but opponents of President Laurent Gbagbo are meeting in Paris to discuss uniting behind a single candidate in next year's elections...

If President Laurent Gbagbo still worries about what people think of him the row over the resignation of cocoa producers' leader Henri Amouzou has triggered some embarrassing revelations...

At a 6 July meeting on Côte d'Ivoire at the African Union summit Bongo berated President Laurent Gbagbo for never keeping the promises made at many such gatherings since the start of the crisis...