Laurent Gbagbo

There are close ties between the Krahn people in Liberia and the Guéré in western Côte d’Ivoire who mostly backed ousted President Laurent Gbagbo...

He says African leaders should focus on problems such as Western powers’ encroachment on African space as in the toppling of Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi and the French-backed military intervention in Côte d’Ivoire after President Laurent Gbagbo refused to leave power...

To Ouattara's dismay South Africa tried to use the AU to countermand Ecowas action against his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo who had refused to recognise Ouattara's election victory in November 2010...

His predecessor Laurent Gbagbo is already a prisoner of the International Criminal Court in The Hague accused of human rights violations...

Togo arrested ex-President Laurent Gbagbo's Defence Minister Moïse Lida Kouassi on 6 June and deported him to Côte d'Ivoire on suspicion of attempting to destabilise President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's government...

Some analysts believe that the deterrent effect of Taylor’s conviction will not be as great as that of Ivorian ex-President Laurent Gbagbo if the International Criminal Court (ICC) finds him guilty of rejecting an election result and unleashing violence on his opponents and on pro-democracy protestors...

Analysts say that Angola is most anxious to see an end to the coup and member countries still harbour grudges against Luanda over its support for Laurent Gbagbo in last year’s Ivorian crisis...

So far it has been very undisciplined an amalgam of former rebels soldiers from the army of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo and mercenaries...

He knew how CFA Franc Zone sanctions could undermine a defiant regime as they did ousted President Laurent Gbagbo...

Earlier plans stagnated firstly because of civil conflict and then because they did not fit with the system of patronage of former President Laurent Gbagbo...