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Ivory Coast
Gbagbo planned to get rid of Soro

Well before the second round of the presidential elections on November 28, Laurent Gbagbo was intending to obtain funds and [...]

Published on 07.07.2011 at 22:01 GMT

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Ahmed Kaddafedam
Alcide Djedje
Ali Bongo
El Hadj Othman
Forces nouvelles
Guillaume Soro
Laurent Gbagbo
Muammar Gaddhafi
Stephane Ravion

Ivory Coast
Djedje back, briefly, at the palace

The presidential palace was the scene of a rare encounter [...]

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Ivory Coast
Ouattara’s Air Force One in Abidjan

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara will no longer have to hitch a ride with other heads of state now that he has his very own presidential plane.

Subscribers only Politics 06.07.2011

Ivory Coast
Ouattara’s Masonic government

The Freemasonry movement has done well out of the change of regime in Ivory Coast, filling a number of key ministries with its members.

Subscribers only Politics 06.07.2011

Ivory Coast
When Gbagbo called the Pope

In the middle of Ivory Coast’s post-electoral crisis, Laurent Gbagbo [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.07.2011

Ivory Coast
Intelligence: new regime rings changes

The notorious Agence Nationale de la Strategie et de l’Intelligence (ANSI), under the orders of retired general Jean Pierre Lorougnon, [...]

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Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Place in the sun for French business

At a time when the French employers' organisation Medef is pondering the future of France's relations with its former colonies in Africa -its seminar "Rethink Africa-France" takes place on July 12 - the French business community will converge on Ivory [.

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2011

Ivory Coast
FRCI helps Gbagbo followers get away

Laurent Gbagbo’s supporters are seeking refuge beyond Ivory Coast’s borders with the help, surprisingly, of Alassane Ouattara’s FRCI, West Africa Newsletter can reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Ivory Coast
Ouattara's new succession issues

Helene Houphouet-Boigny, 55, Felix Houphouet-Boigny's daughter, is hoping the change of regime in Ivory Coast might bring her closer to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Ivory Coast
Charles Diby Koffi on the offensive

Alassane Ouattara's finance minister has been so low key he has almost been invisible since his appointment last November. But he has been working behind the scenes forming what might be considered a cabinet of “national reconciliation".

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2011

Ivory Coast
Top jobs for Bedie's people

Advisor to Ouattara during the post-electoral crisis, former president Henri Konan Bedie has made the most of the situation to place his own inner circle in key posts.

Subscribers only Politics 11.05.2011

Ivory Coast
Ex-FN fighters control Abidjan

Their victory over Laurent Gbagbo's Forces de Defense et de Securite (FDS) enabled the war lords of the ex-rebel movement [...]

Subscribers only Politics 11.05.2011

Ivory Coast
Ouattara purges administration

Alassane Ouattara did not wait to secure military victory over Laurent Gbagbo before he began his purge of Ivory Coast's [...]

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Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Gbagbo: Chronicle of a defeat

In military matters, as in politics, betrayal and defection often determine the course of history. In Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo was broadsided by his adversary Alassane Ouattara’s sudden offensive. But three other factors also helped to bring him down:

Subscribers only Politics 06.04.2011

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Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

DRC
Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

Ivory Coast
Gbagbo planned to get rid of Soro

Ivory Coast
Djedje back, briefly, at the palace

Ivory Coast
Ouattara’s Air Force One in Abidjan

Ivory Coast
Ouattara’s Masonic government

Ivory Coast
When Gbagbo called the Pope

Ivory Coast
Intelligence: new regime rings changes

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Place in the sun for French business

Ivory Coast
FRCI helps Gbagbo followers get away

Ivory Coast
Ouattara's new succession issues

Ivory Coast
Charles Diby Koffi on the offensive

Ivory Coast
Top jobs for Bedie's people

Ivory Coast
Ex-FN fighters control Abidjan

Ivory Coast
Ouattara purges administration

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Gbagbo: Chronicle of a defeat