Robert Guéï

He joins the distinguished company of: Presidents Paul Kagame (Rwanda) and Laurent Gbagbo (Côte d'Ivoire); two serving Ivorian ministers Moïse Lida Kouassi (Defence) and Emile Boga Doudou (Interior); ex-dictators General Robert Gueï (Côte d'Ivoire) and Hissène Habré (Chad); and Congo-Kinshasa's ex-Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombassi...

None of the three main opposition figures - ex President Henri Konan Bédié General Robert Gueï and ex-Premier Alassane Ouattara - turned up at the opening ceremony on 9 October...

The soldiers put in their own President General Robert Gueï...

Documents seen by Africa Confidential include an order apparently signed last May by General Robert Gueï deposed in October as Ivorian President for 10 500 AK-47s 100 sniper rifles and 230 grenade launchers...

Former President Henri Konan-Bédié and his old rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara are in exile in France while deposed military leader General Robert Gueï says he still hasn't received his invitation...

The discussions included prominent Ivorians - Charles Gomis (former chef de cabinet to Kabbaj) and Georges Ouegnin (former advisor to ousted military leader General Robert Gueï and long-time head of Ivorian protocol)...

Gbagbo's predecessor as head of state General Robert Gueï seems bound to stand trial though he is still protected by some of Boka Yapi's militia and some Liberian fighters...

After nine months of General Robert Gueï and three of Gbagbo on the throne in Abidjan when Côte d'Ivoire's crisis is discussed Dupuch dons a knowing look...

Robert Gueï and the still-mutinous young soldiers; then later between soldiers and gendarmes; and most recently between Gueï and Gbagbo in the chaos surrounding October's presidential election...

Certainly Gbagbo has wrung every gram of political advantage from the 'Ivoirité' doctrine - Côte d'Ivoire for Ivorians and no 'foreigners' in Ivorian politics - pushed by his ousted predecessors President Henri Konan Bédié and General Robert Gueï...

The Prime Minister Affi Nguessan was Minister of Industry and Tourism under General Robert Gueï; Mamadou Koulibaly Gueï's Minister of the Economy and Finance also kept his job as did the former ministers of Higher and of State Education...