It’s no surprise that Laurent Gbagbo’s name did not appear on the electoral list published on Saturday, 20 May, by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). Gbagbo’s party, the Parti des peuples ...

Gbagbo was ousted in April 2011 after a conflict sparked by his refusal to accept electoral defeat at the hands of Alassane Ouattara, the current president. Around 3,000 people died in the brief war, ...

Peter Penar is affiliated with the Leaders of Africa Institute. In early August the former president of Côte d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, floated the idea of creating a new political party. Gbagbo’s ...

Police fired teargas at supporters of Laurent Gbagbo as they gathered to welcome the former Ivory Coast president at the airport of the country's largest city, Abidjan, on Thursday June 17,2021.

Last week, a landmark trial began at the International Criminal Court. Laurent Gbagbo, the former president of Côte d’Ivoire, and Charles Blé Goudé, who was youth and employment minister in Gbagbo’s ...

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara delivers a speech on 14 December 2020 during his inauguration ceremony. The constitutional court in Côte d'Ivoire has definitively barred two top opposition leaders ...

A historic pairing in Ivorian politics has officially come to an end. Some 50 years of companionship, militancy, imprisonment, and exercise of power. Laurent Gbagbo and Simone Ehivet Gbagbo were ...