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 [...]
Ibrahim “IB” Coulibaly must work with President Ouattara for a lasting peace in Ivory Coast
There was tension in Abidjan as Ivory Coast’s new army turned its guns on a former ally who helped install the democratically elected president but failed on Thursday to defeat his forces who are dug into a neighborhood of the city. Infighting among forces who recognize President Alassane Ouattara also erupted Wednesday in the southwestern cocoa [...]
Gbagbo’s family members are freed in the Ivory Coast
Jeannot Ahoussou, the new justice minister in the Ivory Coast, has stated that most family members and domestic workers of disgraced strongman Laurent Gbagbo have been freed from detention. Ahoussou, made the announcement on national television. He said that the government released about 70 out of about about 120 people arrested when Ouattara’s forces stormed the presidential [...]
The U.N. played no role in regime change in the Ivory Coast
UNITED NATIONS, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – The United Nations peacekeeping chief on Friday denied that UN troops were used to achieve regime change in Ivory Coast where international forces knocked out weapons used by deposed strongman Laurent Gbagbo. Peacekeeping head Alain Le Roy said forces loyal to President Alassane Ouattara may have taken advantage of [...]
Stockpiles of arms discovered at presidential palace in Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – Long green crates are piled high in the corridors beneath the kitchens of Ivory Coast’s presidential palace, holding hundreds of rockets stockpiled by deposed leader Laurent Gbagbo. Gbagbo’s forces abandoned the palace, on a promontory looking onto the port of the central Plateau business district, Tuesday after the besieged president [...]
“Street General” Charles Ble Goude captured in Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – Ivory Coast’s slow recovery after four months of bloodshed gained pace Friday as Alassane Ouattara’s victorious regime captured ousted strongman Laurent Gbagbo’s most notorious henchman. Alongside the arrest of Charles Ble Goude, known as the ”street general” of the feared Young Patriots movement, a pro-Ouattara newspaper reopened and the government declared [...]
Laurent Gbagbo has been moved to the north of Ivory Coast and will stay in a presidential residence
ABIDJAN, April 13, 2011 (AFP) – Detained former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo was moved on Wednesday from Abidjan to the north of the country where he remains under UN guard, officials said. Gbagbo had been at the official headquarters of his arch-rival President Alassane Ouattara, in Ivory Coast’s main city, since his capture on Monday. A [...]
Laurent Gbagbo has been placed under house arrest
ABIDJAN, April 13, 2011 (AFP) – Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, arrested Monday, has been placed under house arrest, President Alassane Ouattara’s government announced late Tuesday without saying where. In a statement Justice Minister Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio recalled how the former strongman had been arrested after fighting between government forces and pro-Gbagbo troops “assisted by Liberian [...]
Gbagbo’s Interior Minister captured along with him has died from his wounds
ABIDJAN, April 12, 2011 (AFP) – A former interior minister who was arrested along with Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo died Tuesday in circumstances that remained unclear, sources said. Desire Tagro was seen to be wounded on his arrival at the Golf Hotel, rival Alassane Ouattara’s temporary headquarters, to which Gbagbo was also taken on Monday [...]
