Vol 52 No 9 |
- BURKINA FASO
Compaoré worked as a mediator in Côte d’Ivoire and urged ex-President Laurent Gbagbo to submit to the election last year...
The armed eviction of Laurent Gbagbo from the Ivorian presidency by a coalition of opposition United Nations and French forces together with the organisation of national elections in Nigeria make this one of the most momentous weeks in West African politics for a decade or more...
Vol 52 No 7 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
However he attracted heavy regional criticism for backing Laurent Gbagbo in Côte d’Ivoire against the internationally recognised election winner Alassane Dramane Ouattara...
Vol 52 No 6 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Trade sources in Moscow and London report that business allies of Laurent Gbagbo have begun exporting cocoa out of the port of San Pedro in defiance of President-elect Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s export ban...
Vol 52 No 5 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Officials may be hoping that the weight of sanctions will have driven out Laurent Gbagbo by then (AC Vol 52 No 3 & AC Vol 52 No 4)...
Vol 52 No 4 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
The bitter rivalry between presidential claimants Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Dramane Ouattara has come to personify the arguments over how to manage elections in Africa and beyond...
Vol 52 No 4 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Laurent Gbagbo’s economic options are narrowing...
Some point to Museveni’s support for Laurent Gbagbo defeated in the second round of the Ivorian election but refusing to quit...
Vol 52 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
'A deferral of the Sudanese President's case ' says Baldo 'would be a serious blow to accountability and send the wrong message to regimes that abuse human rights such as Côte d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe...
Vol 52 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
That meeting pitted Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (who backs Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) as the Ivorian election winner) against South African President Jacob Zuma (who sees a strong French hand behind the campaign against Laurent Gbagbo)...