Vol 65 No 5 |
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Completing the near-total collapse of the Left in Côte d'Ivoire neither Gbagbo's ex-wife Simone Ehivet nor his former youth leader Charles Blé Goudé have been able to impress anyone...
Vol 64 No 12 |
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Two other political operators will be testing the electoral waters even if they are not fielding candidates: Ex-President Gbagbo's ex-wife Simone Ehivet Gbagbo and her Mouvement des générations capables (MGC) created last August and former youth minister Charles Blé Goudé with his revived Congrès panafricain pour la justice et l'egalité des peuples are holding mass rallies and getting good attendances (AC Vol 55 No 7 Who will follow Blé Goudé to the Hague...
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Vol 64 No 10 |
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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...
Simone Gbagbo made her breakthrough speech at a rally in Bouaké on 30 April in front of thousands of activists and supporters of her party the Mouvement des générations capables (MGC) as well as representatives of the ruling Rassemblement des Houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix (RHDP) and the main opposition party the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire-African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA)...
Simone Gbagbo has called for them to be postponed because they will not be free and fair under present conditions...
The polls would be the first test of Simone Gbagbo's MGC which was formed last August (AC Vol 63 No 24 Rebel returns home)...
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The most important are Gbagbo's ex-wife Simone Ehivet Gbagbo or the two most prominent younger politicians: former youth minister Charles Blé Goudé (still living in the Netherlands after his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity); or Guillaume Soro currently in forced exile in France but plotting his return...
Vol 62 No 23 |
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FPI: Gbagbo remakes his old ruling partyLaurent Gbagbo quickly staked out a new political space for himself after returning from his decade of exile in June divorcing his wife of 32 years Simone Ehivet-Gbagbo and discovering that the new FPI leader Pascal Affi N'Guessan was not going to make way for him...
FPI: Gbagbo remakes his old ruling partyLaurent Gbagbo quickly staked out a new political space for himself after returning from his decade of exile in June divorcing his wife of 32 years Simone Ehivet-Gbagbo and discovering that the new FPI leader Pascal Affi N'Guessan was not going to make way for him...
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Vol 62 No 15 |
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Having faced much criticism for his political shortcomings Ouattara is trying to position himself as the man to heal the country's wounds having pardoned hundreds of opposition supporters including Simone Gbagbo (the estranged first wife of Laurent Gbagbo)...
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Vol 62 No 13 |
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Ouattara has positioned himself as a healer of wounds granting amnesty to hundreds of opposition supporters including Simone Gbagbo his predecessor's first wife (see Box A private party)...
A private party On 21 June former President Laurent Gbagbo moved to put a formal end to his 32-year marriage to the former First Lady Simone Ehivet Gbagbo with whom he founded the Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) and was arrested with in dramatic fashion at the end of the siege of his residence in April 2011...
Vol 60 No 4 |
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LiabilitiesThis leaves an alliance with former First Lady Simone Gbagbo who broadcasts her loyalty to the FPI but occupies no formal position in her husband's party...
Vol 60 No 2 |
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In such a situation Ouattara does have the advantage of incumbency: as the current head of state he is the man with the power to grant amnesty – as he did for Gbagbo's wife Simone Gbagbo last August – or invite his predecessor to return home...
Vol 59 No 17 |
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All this has brought the former First Lady Simone Gbagbo released on August 6 back under the spotlight...