All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
After three days of postponement of the second West Africa Polytechnics Games, due to his tight itinerary, Cote d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo yesterday declared the games open though in the end he could only send the nation's Minister of Sports, Dagobert Bazio.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Cote d'Ivoire's ruling party, the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), chose incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo Saturday as its nominee to compete in the Nov. 30 presidential elections. Gbagbo has honored his promise to make people's interests the top priority since he was sworn in eight years ago and has contributed to the peace process in the country, said Pascal Affi N'Guessan, president of the FPI. "We...
France24 (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, in office for the past 8 years, was named Saturday as his party's candidate for the country's November 30 presidential election. Gbabgo will formally announce his candidacy in October, an official said.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Source: Reuters By David Lewis YAMOUSSOUKRO, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo was named as his party's candidate for November elections at a meeting on Saturday that pointed to an ...
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Dakar, Senegal - Ivorian leader, Laurent Gbagbo, has arrived in The Gambia on a "private visit" as part of his holidays, authoritative sources in Banjul revealed to PANA Tuesday. The Ivorian President, who will be in Gambia for an unspecified number of days, was quoted as saying that he hardly spent his annual holidays outside Africa.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
The vice-president, Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, on Saturday, received in her office a special envoy of the president of the Republic of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo.
France24 (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
After years of tense relations, Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast signaled reconciliation with a three-day visit by Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo in Ouagadougou. Gbagbo vowed to make the two countries the 'backbone' of West Africa.
France24 (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
"I have come to announce peace", Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo told Burkina Faso's lawmakers, during a landmark three-day visit to Ouagadougou signaling warming relations between the two countries.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Théophile Kouamouo comments [Fr] on President Laurent Gbagbo's recent anti-corruption operation in Cote d'Ivoire. He says: “The coffee-cocoa industry barons will be judged. But we don't talk much about the credibility of those that will judge them. Now, Ivorian justice is as ill as the political class[…] We need a true moral revolution, a subversion [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Simone Gbagbo, the wife of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, and former Ivorian economy minister Paul-Antoine Bohoun Bouabré failed to respond to a summons from French investigating judge Patrick Ramaël for questioning on 10 July 2008 in Paris as witnesses in his probe into the disappearance of journalist Guy-André Kieffer, a dual French-Canadian national, in Côte d'Ivoire in 2004.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Source: Reuters By Loucoumane Coulibaly SEGUELA, Ivory Coast, July 14 (Reuters) - Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo pledged on Monday that elections in November would go ahead despite security fears raised by a ...
Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Simone Gbagbo, the wife of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, and former Ivorian economy minister Paul-Antoine Bohoun Bouabré failed to respond to a summons from French investigating judge Patrick Ramaël for questioning today in Paris as witnesses in his probe into the disappearance of journalist Guy-André Kieffer, a dual French-Canadian national, in Côte d'Ivoire in 2004
007 in Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
I will be going to Côte d'Ivoire for work in about a month. Here is my selection bias of fun facts from Wikipedia: · The government officially discourages the use of the name Ivory Coast in English, preferring the French name Côte d'Ivoire to be used in all languages. · Laurent Gbagbo won elections in October 2000. On September 19, 2002, while the President was in Italy , there was an armed uprising....
France24 (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo talks about the next presidential elections, Franco-Ivorian relations and the disappearance of Franco-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo has given instructions for the sacking of the Yamoussoukro Airport officials following the shortcomings that delayed President Blaise Compaore’s descent from his plane on 8 May, official sources disclosed. The Burkinabe president, the Ivorian crisis facilitator, was marooned in his plane for half an hour due to a failure of the stairs [...]
