Parties led by former Credit Suisse AG Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam and ex-President Laurent Gbagbo agreed to form ...

Ivory Coast's two main opposition parties on Thursday announced a "common front" to demand that their leaders, banned from ...

Ivory Coast's opposition is weighing its options after four of its top figures were excluded from the October 25 presidential ...

The former president of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo is now thought to be in detention in the Netherlands, where he will be questioned by officials at the International Criminal Court. A plane ...

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 ...

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The trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo — alongside his ally Charles Blé Goudé — opened Thursday in The Hague, where Gbagbo has been held for the past four years. Why is ...

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 ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Forces stormed the bunker where Ivory Coast's strongman Laurent Gbagbo hung on to power Monday, arresting the man whose refusal to hand over the presidency to the election ...

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 ...

UPDATE: Despite earlier reports that he was negotiating an end to a brutal succession conflict, Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo defiantly insisted Tuesday that he is legitimately the ...