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Côte d'Ivoire

Guillaume Kigbafori Soro

Date of Birth: 8 May 1972
Place of Birth: Diawala, Côte d'Ivoire


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Stabilisation now, reconciliation later

Soro’s challenges The Prime Minister and former Forces Nouvelles (FN) leader Guillaume Soro controls the military side of the new government and considers the Forces républicaines de la Côte d’Ivoire to be his own...


Coulibaly: Death of a rebel

IB then caused Ouattara and Guillaume Soro to lose any remaining confidence in him by entering into negotiations with the Liberian mercenaries in Youpougon...


Guns, votes and cocoa

Guillaume Soro Ouattara’s nominee as prime minister a post he held under Gbagbo was FN leader and has again been out on the western front guiding policy...


Peering into the abyss

Nicknamed the ‘invisible commandos’ by locals and army officers these highly effective anti-Gbagbo forces have been linked to Ibrahim Coulibaly (‘IB’) the former FN leader who was sidelined by Guillaume Soro...


Democracy standoff

Ouattara’s Prime Minister Guillaume Soro has appointed a defector from the army Captain Léon Kouakou Alla as defence spokesman...


Squeezing Gbagbo's budget

His term in office was ended by the UEMOA summit in Bamako Mali on 22 January where Côte d'Ivoire was represented by Ouattara's chosen Prime Minister Guillaume Soro...


Two presidents, one crisis

Her warnings may have been prompted by claims from Ouattara’s Prime Minister Guillaume Soro that: ‘The last resources of state coffers were plundered to buy huge numbers of arms and pay Liberian mercenaries who are operating once the curfew sets in...


Holding their breath

The Forces Nouvelles (FN) have called for their former rebel leader and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro ‘and his government’ to be more involved in transporting ballot boxes...


And then, there were two

The CEI deferred to Prime Minister Guillaume Soro’s call for electronic counting despite ruling this out a day earlier and pushing for a manual count...


Behind the election machinery

Ex-FN leader and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro may mediate between Gbagbo and his rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara in the second round...


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