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 [...]
Senegalese President accused of recruiting mercenaries from Ivory Coast
An opposition leader in Senegal, ex-prime minister Macky Sall, has accused President Abdoulaye Wade’s regime of recruiting mercenaries from countries such as Ivory Coast Sall, who is also a former interior minister, told foreign journalists in Dakar that Wade’s regime had “recruited mercenaries with bloodstained hands from Ivory Coast, Guinea and Nigeria” to be used to “kidnap opponents and [...]
8 new peacekeeping bases to be opened by the U.N. in Ivory Coast
Eight new peacekeeping bases will be opened by the United Nations in western Ivory Coast in an effort to restore law and order ahead of upcoming legislative elections, according to the U.N. mission chief Choi Young-jin. The bases will be located in areas where fighting was the fiercest in March, and where tens of thousands of people still [...]
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 [...]
Notorious mercenary accused of massacres in Ivory Coast arrested by police in Liberia
One of the most notorious mercenaries accused of leading massacres in Ivory Coast to help that country’s tyrannical leader secure his slipping grip on power is in police custody in his native Liberia, according to officials in the West African state. National Liberian Police Spokesman George Bardu said the self-proclaimed general was arrested several weeks ago [...]
10 Liberians charged for acting as mercenaries in Ivory Coast
Authorities in the West African state of Liberia have charged ten people for allegedly acting as mercenaries in the post-election conflict in neighbouringIvory Coast. A court document said a trial date has yet to be determined. Two weeks ago, security officials announced the arrest of 12 people, including Liberians, alleged to have acted as mercenaries for ousted president Laurent Gbagbo in [...]
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. [...]
Mass grave with 68 bodies discovered in Ivory Coast stadium by the U.N.
Some U.N. investigators in Ivory Coast have determined there were at least 68 bodies spread out across 10 burial mounds in a mass grave recently discovered on a soccer field in Abidjan, the country’s commercial capital. Guillaume Ngefa, the deputy director of the human rights division of the U.N. mission in Ivory Coast, said Monday the [...]
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 [...]
