Laurent Gbagbo: from the top, down and a likely glorious return

Laurent Gbagbo: from the top, down and a likely glorious return

President from 2000 to 2011 Laurent Gbagbo is due to return to Ivory Coast on Thursday after a ten-year absence, buoyed by his acquittal at the end of March by the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) on charges of crimes against humanity committed during the post-election crisis of 2010.

DECRYPTAGE - Justice has removed the former banker Tidjane Thiam from the electoral lists, who was planning to run. He joins former president Laurent Gbagbo, who was also condemned.

In the absence of amnesty for President Alassane Ouattara after his Ivorian conviction following the serious post-election crisis of 2010-2011, he cannot be re-registered.

After having been designated by the Central Committee a few weeks earlier, it was on 10 May 2025 that the former Ivorian President, Laurent Gbagbo, would formally and solemnly be invested by the Parti des peuples africaines – Côte d'Ivoire (PPA-CI), as his presidential candidate of 2025. This was the result of a convention held in the Ivorian economic capital, which will see the participation of no less than 2,000 delegates from all over the cou…

During an interview with Léa Salamé, Laurent Ruquier is a figure in the French media landscape. Born in 1963 in Le Havre, he quickly showed himself on television, but also on the radio. After a career on a radio station in Le Havre, he is noticed by France Inter thanks to his humour. Since then he has stopped climbing the steps, and now occupies a place of choice on RTL but also on France 2. But if Laurent Ruquier to the habit of talking to othe…

François Boumart is the founder of the New Pol group. Although he lives in France, he is interested in what is taking place in Côte d'Ivoire, his country of origin. Although he does not hide his admiration for Thomas Sankara and Laurent Gbagbo, he says he is more affected by the resilience and determination of the second.All Africans have seen the unjust war of Chiracian and Sarkozian France against a man who refused to be a sub-prefect of Franc…