Laurent Gbagbo

Similar effort has been put into cultivating Nigeria where opinions about France had long been influenced by its support for Biafra's separatists in the 1960s and South Africa whose position supporting ex-President Laurent Gbagbo in the Ivorian crisis of 2010-11 was radically different from that of Paris...

The two countries differed over France's role in the ousting of Côte d'Ivoire's President Laurent Gbagbo in 2011 but have been working more closely on the crisis in Central African Republic...

He had fled to Ghana after the fall of president Laurent Gbagbo in April 2011 but was arrested there and sent to Côte d'Ivoire in January 2013 (AC Vol 55 No 4 The price of peace & Vol 54 No 2 Blé Goudé arrested)...

Côte d'Ivoire's Great West region has been the site of deadly violence since civil conflict followed President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's election victory over Laurent Gbagbo in November 2010...

And will the party of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo the Front populaire ivoirien (FPI) field a candidate...

Two serving African Presidents Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta and Sudan's Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and one former President Côte d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo have been charged with crimes against humanity at the ICC...

On the same day judges at the ICC told Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda that the case against Laurent Gbagbo the deposed President of Côte d’Ivoire was not strong enough to go to trial...

Duékoué was a stronghold of support for Ouattara’s foe ex-President Laurent Gbagbo now on trial at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity (see Feature)...

Pro-Laurent Gbagbo forces have hired ex-civil war guerrillas to carry out attacks in western Côte d’Ivoire and before the elections in both Sierra Leone and Liberia there was great concern about the potential threat from demobilised fighters...

Compaoré’s ties with the commanders of the Ivorian rebellion in 2002 their leader Guillaume Soro and with Alassane Dramane Ouattara now President rendered him suspect as a mediator in Côte d’Ivoire’s crisis in the eyes of the supporters of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo...