UNOCI chief holds first meeting with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, November 8, 2011 – African Press Organization (APO) — The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte d’Ivoire, Bert Koenders, on Tuesday met with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan. Speaking after the encounter which lasted almost an hour, the chief of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) appealed [...]
Laurent Gbagbo and his wife have been charged with economic crimes, aggravated theft and embezzlement of state funds in Ivory Coast
Laurent Gbagbo, the former President of the Ivory Coast in West Africa has been charged to court along with his wife, Simone, by the country’s Public prosecutors with economic crimes including embezzlement of public funds and aggravated theft. Simplice Kouadio Koffi, the public prosecutor, said the former president, Laurent Gbagbo, is currently being detained in [...]
President Alassane Ouattara extends a hand of reconciliation to former top Gbagbo military officers
President Laurent Gbagbo’s top military officers have been urged to returned to Ivory Coast Friday from exile in Ghana in a ‘reconciliation’ move by the new government of Alassane Ouattara. A government delegation sent by Ouattara to neighbouring Ghana last week convinced Colonel Boniface Konan — a senior member of Gbagbo’s Defence and Security Forces and three other officers to go back home. Their [...]
Laurent Gbagbo’s Ivorian People’s Front is now a shadow of its former self
It seems Laurent Gbagbo’s Ivorian People’s Front (FPI) is now a shadow of its former self. After a decade in power and a four-month battle for power in Abdijan following last November’s disputed presidential poll, only the walls of its headquarters are standing following widespread looting during the fighting. And it suffered an even heavier blow Monday [...]
Laurent Gbagbo’s political party chief resigns
Mamadou Koulibaly, the interim head of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo’s party, has announced that he was breaking with the political faction because they refused to accept change and has also said he planned to join a new party. Koulibaly, the speaker of Ivory Coast’s national assembly who became interim head of the Ivorian People’s [...]
Ivory Coast issues international arrest warrant for Charles Ble Goude and other close aides of Laurent Gbagbo
The West African State of Ivory Coast has issued international arrest warrants for Charles Ble Goude and other close aides of former president Laurent Gbagbo, the Abidjan prosecutor said Friday. ”Arrest warrants have been issued against suspects on the run,” including Ble Goude, who led Gbagbo’s Young Patriots, and former government spokesman Ahoua Don Mello, the prosecutor Simplice Kouadio Koffi told a news [...]
Alassane Ouattara inaugurated President of Ivory Coast
World leaders began arriving in Ivory Coast’s administrative capital Saturday for the presidential inauguration, a ceremony that will mark the return of constitutional order and the end of a political standoff that nearly dragged the country into civil war. The stately ceremony should have taken place six months ago after Alassane Ouattara won November’s presidential election. [...]
Alassane Outtara is proclaimed President by court in Ivory Coast
The highest court in Ivory Coast has publicly reversed course by proclaiming Alassane Ouattara president, bringing the country full circle five months after a disputed vote which nearly dragged the nation into civil war. The head of the constitutional council, Paul Yao N’Dre — previously one of the staunchest supporters of the country’s strongman Laurent Gbagbo [...]
Was renegade warlord Ibrahim ‘IB’ Coulibaly assassinated in the Ivory Coast?
Ibrahim IB Coulibaly, the renegade warlord who made no secret of his presidential ambitions, said he was being targeted for assassination just two days before he died this week. A few days earlier, during an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Coulibaly exuded confidence. He did not seem like a man who would take his own [...]
Ivory Coast’s fragile peace is under threat by feuding warlords
A year-old feud between rival warlords came to a head as volleys of gunshots erupted again in Abidjan that threatensIvory Coast’s fragile peace. It is unclear if technocrat President Alassane Ouattara can control any of the six warlords who helped install him in power by ousting former strongman Laurent Gbagbo, who is under arrest. The latest fighting is [...]
