Guillaume Kigbafori Soro

Notable losers in the elections included a key ally of former rebel leader Guillaume Soro Alain Lobognon who has been in jail since December 2020 for ‘plotting against state security'...

The insurgent potential of the army has been greatly reduced as ex-Prime Minister and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro found out when his November call to stage an uprising went unheeded but there remains a potential for mutiny...

One important politician remains out in the cold: Guillaume Soro...

This year it is going to be a tall order for the 86-year-old Bédié to take on the 78-year-old Ouattara by fronting a campaign in the name of change while supported from exile by Gbagbo and former parliamentary speaker Guillaume Soro both shut out of the race...

The compliant CEI has also helpfully ruled that both former parliamentary speaker and militia leader Guillaume Soro and ex-President Laurent Gbagbo both potential candidates may not vote let alone stand for office...

They could shape the contest by mobilising anti-Ouattara opinion even from their enforced residence in Europe: they are former parliamentary speaker Guillaume Soro and former President Laurent Gbagbo...

However it wasn't long before responsibility for the attack was being directed at former prime minister and parliamentary speaker Guillaume Soro who's own fief Ferkessédougou is not far away...

Former parliamentary speaker Guillaume Soro convicted in absentia on graft charges and sentenced to 20 years' jail is exiled in France...

Adding to that was the conviction in absentia on 28 April of the exiled former parliamentary speaker Guillaume Soro shutting him out of the presidential race...

Then the popular national assembly speaker Guillaume Soro resigned to launch his own presidential campaign and political movement...