Tag Archives: Laurent Gbagbo

High-level allies of former president Gbagbo face extradition as Ivory...

February 8, 2013 no comments

ABIDJAN, Feb 8 2013 Robbie Corey-Boulet (IPS) - The extradition of high-level allies of former Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo from Ghana back to their home country, including a most recent on...

Former Ivorian Minister in Gbagbo’s government arrested in Ghana

August 29, 2012 2 comments

A former Minister in charge of Budget and Spokesman of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, Justin Kone Katinan has been arrested by the Ghanaian security on Friday 24th August, 2012 and is being...

ICC denies Laurent Gbagbo pre-trial release

July 22, 2012 no comments

According to the ruling released by the ICC on Thursday, Judge Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi termed the ex-president for Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo as ‘a big risk to be given a release’ taking into co...

Laurent Gbagbo and his wife have been charged with economic crimes, ag...

August 21, 2011 no comments

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 ...

President Alassane Ouattara extends a hand of reconciliation to former...

July 30, 2011 no comments

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 O...

Loyalists of former President Laurent Gbagbo no longer a threat in Ivo...

July 19, 2011 no comments

Groups loyal to former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo are no longer a threat to peace and order in the West African nation, according to the chief of the U.N. Mission in the country. ”By ...

Laurent Gbagbo’s Ivorian People’s Front is now a shadow of...

July 13, 2011 no comments

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 NovemberR...

Laurent Gbagbo’s political party chief resigns

July 11, 2011 no comments

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 ...

Ivory Coast issues international arrest warrant for Charles Ble Goude ...

July 1, 2011 no comments

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. R...

Notorious mercenary accused of massacres in Ivory Coast arrested by po...

June 15, 2011 no comments

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 L...

10 Liberians charged for acting as mercenaries in Ivory Coast

June 9, 2011 no comments

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 da...

Bodies litter the streets of Abidjan as fighting continues between Ivo...

May 3, 2011 no comments

Bodies littere the streets of an Abidjan neighborhood as fighting continued between Ivory Coast troops and the remnants of a militia loyal to deposed leader Laurent Gbagbo. The clashes highlight the ...

Was renegade warlord Ibrahim ‘IB’ Coulibaly assassinated i...

April 29, 2011 no comments

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, d...

Gbagbo’s family members are freed in the Ivory Coast

April 17, 2011 no comments

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,...

The U.N. played no role in regime change in the Ivory Coast

April 15, 2011 no comments

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...

“Street General” Charles Ble Goude captured in Ivory Coast...

April 15, 2011 no comments

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 Laur...