As Africa gears up for a series of pivotal elections in 2025, including the recent ones in Gabon on 12 April, Malawi in September, and Tanzania, Cameroon and C ocirc;te d 39;Ivoire in October, it is ...

ABIDJAN: A former minister for Ivory Coast’s ruling party who was arrested in June for criticising the exclusion of ...

Supporters of incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo react during a pro-Gbagbo rally in the Yopougon district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011 ...

The African Peoples' Party - Côte d'Ivoire (PPA-CI), led by former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, has formally launched ...

If Laurent Gbagbo, the besieged Ivory Coast strongman who appears near to losing power, ever needed an ally in Washington, it's now.. And he has one apparently, Sen. James Inhofe, the conservative ...

Former Côte d’Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo pleads not guilty at the International Criminal Court to crimes against humanity and war crimes, in the court’s first trial of a former head of ...

DAKAR, Senegal — The International Criminal Court in The Hague said on Tuesday that it had acquitted the former president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, and one of his aides of crimes against ...

Gbagbo led Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2010, then refused to concede defeat to opponent Alassane Ouattara. The fighting between their supporters brought Ivory Coast back to the brink of civil war ...

Laurent Gbagbo: A Strongman’s Last Stand . With hundreds of people massacred, and armed militiamen roaming the streets, the final battle for control of Ivory Coast draws near.

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 ...

Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa — Laurent Gbagbo, who has clung to power in Ivory Coast despite his defeat last fall in U.N.-certified elections, called for a cease-fire Tuesday after ...