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Côte d’Ivoire

Laurent Gbagbo

Date of Birth: 31 May 1945
Place of Birth: Mama village, near Gagnoa


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Squeezing Gbagbo's budget

Europe is adding its own sanctions to the pressure on President Laurent Gbagbo from Africa's regional organisations to force him to stand down in the post-election stand off...


Cocoa ban may hit Gbagbo's war chest

Alassane Ouattara had sent a letter to the organisation of cocoa exporters the Bourse du Café et du Cacao saying that paying tax to Laurent Gbagbo who refuses to quit the presidency was illegal and that exporters who defied his ban could be prosecuted by local and international courts...


Propaganda war

Many in the Francophone African exile community have been unusually supportive of Laurent Gbagbo in spite of his sanguinary reputation and with few doubts about the fairness of the Ivorian poll...


Elections on trial

Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos is one of the staunchest supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo along with sundry Israeli and Russian officials...


Getting ready to vote

Politicians are closely watching developments in Côte d’Ivoire where Laurent Gbagbo insisting he is still President is up against regional groups and the United Nations who say he lost the recent election and must step down...


A permanent putsch

The AU and UN firmly oppose Laurent Gbagbo’s refusal to accept election defeat and Ravalomanana’s supporters in SADC may demand a similarly uncompromising rejection of Rajoelina’s election plans...


Bongo feels the heat

The charge was aired in a French television documentary on Françafrique recently and Obame has been making direct comparisons with the situation in Côte d’Ivoire with Ali Bongo in the role of Laurent Gbagbo and Obame as Alassane Ouattara...


Madické Niang

Senegal condemned Laurent Gbagbo’s long stand-off in Côte d’Ivoire after he lost the November 2010 elections...


Odein Ajumogobia

Nigeria urged Laurent Gbagbo to quit after losing Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential election...


Two presidents, one crisis

The Commission Electorale Indépendante may have declared Ouattara (‘ADO’) winner of the presidential election but President Laurent Gbagbo has yet to agree (AC Vol 51 No 23)...


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