Laurent Gbagbo

Ghana’s former President and African Union High Representative for Somalia, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, says Africa failed to prevent excesses sponsored by some members of the international community during political upheavals in countries such […]

Chad’s Hissene Habre will go into the record books as the first former African leader whose flight from justice for many years has been cut short by the very country that has harboured him for […]

The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, has lauded President John Evans Atta Mills for his role in the peace process in La Cote d’Ivoire. He said the exemplary leadership role of President Mills in crisis situations […]

Former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, has described the arrest of Cote d’Ivoire’s President Laurent Gbagbo on Monday as a repetition of the tragedy of DR Congo’s Patrice Lumumba in 1960. Commenting on the […]

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara to ensure that there is no retaliation against supporters of his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo, who surrendered yesterday after months of defying the outcome of the […]

When I saw the Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo in “Joe Singlet” and sweating profusely on the BBC and Euro News channels a short while ago, I didn’t know whether to laugh or weep. I was […]

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has telephoned Alassane Ouattara, the President of Cote d”Ivoire, to discuss the rapidly developing situation there, and to reaffirm the importance of the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping force in the […]

Les Casques bleus de l’Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d’Ivoire (ONUCI), ont été attaqués à plusieurs reprises par les forces loyales à Laurent Gbagbo. Vendredi à Cocody, une patrouille de l’ONUCI a été attaquée […]