BY JIBRIL TURE In a news conference held on Friday, former Ivorian prime minister and candidate of the broad National Coalition for Change, CNC, said he was pulling out of … Read More
BY BOB KOYLE WITH JIBRIL TURE ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE—Not many people here, including the seven men who are campaigning to unseat President Alassane Ouattara, have any doubt who the winner … Read More
BY JIBRIL TURE Alassane Ouattara was born in 1942 in Dimbokro, northern Cote d’Ivoire. He earned his High School Diploma at age 20 in Ouagadougou, the capital of then-Upper … Read More
By Jibril Ture Although he lost the Nov. 28 presidential election, former Cote d’Ivoire’s president, Laurent Gbagbo, desperately stuck to power and the whole world nearly failed to oust him. …
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU Laurent Gbagbo was born on May 31, 1945 in Gagnoa, midwest Cote d’Ivoire. He started his secondary school education at the Gagnoa Seminary and later completed it …
Compiled by Lou Sifa The First Lady of Cote d’Ivoire, Simone Gbagbo, was born on June 20, 1949. A former researcher at the University of Abidjan, she is now involved … Read More
BY RICHARD KUMBA West African leaders deployed an unprecedented diplomatic mechanism to save Côte d’Ivoire from self-destruction, after a mutiny rocked that country on September 19, 2002, killing 400 people …
Laurent Gbagbo, who was a lightweight politician until October 2000, owes his rise to the presidency that year to a man that some in Cote d’Ivoire believe has died in …
BY LOU SIFA The First Lady of Cote d’Ivoire, Simone Ehivet Gbagbo, was on a private visit to the United States from January 28 to February 5. The primary objective … Read More
