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Laurent Gbagbo
Koudou Laurent Gbagbo is an Ivorian politician who served as the president of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. He was the first president in the history of the country that was a centre-left politician. A historian, Gbagbo was imprisoned in the early 1970s and again in the early 1990s, and he lived in exile in France during much of the 1980s as a result of his union activism…
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culture · President of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 to 2011 · politician · writer · university teacher · also Laurent Gbagbo, Laurent Koudou Gbagbo, Koudou Laurent Gbagbo, Gbagbo, woody de Mama
Born 31 May 1945 · Q179242
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2026· 8 entries
“All threats must be taken seriously. But, in Africa, it would be the first time African countries would be ready to go to war because an election went badly.”
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“s state-run TV that he would call for the”
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“I will challenge that evidence and then you hand down your judgment.”
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“I love life. My voice is not the voice of a martyr, no, no, no, I'm not looking for death. It's not my aim to die.”
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IOL: Gbagbo orders UN out of I Coast
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Benin Web TV: Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo establishes a collegiate leadership at the head of the PPA-CI -
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The New York Times: Laurent Gbagbo
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2023· 1 entry
The Africa Report: Côte d’Ivoire: Laurent Gbagbo’s exclusion from electoral list raises controversy
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2021· 2 entries
Yahoo: Laurent Gbagbo launches new political party in Ivory Coast
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The Africa Report: Côte d’Ivoire: What’s in store for Laurent Gbagbo upon his return?
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2019· 1 entry
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “This is footage of a mob beating Laurent Gbagbo” False.
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2013· 2 entries
UPI: Topic: Laurent Gbagbo
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“I won the election and I'm not negotiating my departure. I find it absolutely incredible that the entire world is playing this ... game of poker.”
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2012· 1 entry
Gbagbo's former budget minister Justin Kone Katinan, a close Gbagbo ally, was arrested on an international warrant in Accra, Ghana, on charges of robbery arising from looting of banks in Ivory Coast
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2011· 1 entry
By pro-Ouattara forces, who were supported by French troops
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2010· 3 entries
“I will continue to work with all the countries of the world, but I will never give up our sovereignty.”
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Campaign: 2010 presidential election and post-election violence.
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Côte d'Ivoire had a presidential election
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2006· 1 entry
It was regarded as very unlikely that the election would in fact be held by that point, and the opposition and the rebels rejected the possibility of another term extension for Gbagbo
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2000· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Ivory Coast (2000–2011).
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1996· 1 entry
Gbagbo was re-elected to his seat in the National Assembly from Ouragahio, following a delay in the holding of the election there, and in the same year he was elected as President of the FPI
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1992· 1 entry
Was sentenced to two years in prison and charged with inciting violence, but was released later in the year
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1990· 1 entry
Gbagbo challenged Houphouët-Boigny in the October 1990 presidential election
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1982· 1 entry
And ran unsuccessfully for president against Félix Houphouët-Boigny at the start of multi-party politics in 1990
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1980· 1 entry
Became Director of the Institute of History, Art, and African Archeology at the University of Abidjan
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1979· 1 entry
Obtained his doctorate at Paris Diderot University
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1945· 1 entry
Born 1945-05-31.
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