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Laurent Gbagbo and the evangelical church in Côte d’Ivoire
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Laurent Gbagbo, Alassane Ouattara, prophecies, political, religious, evangelical Church, globalisationAbstract
This article attempts to understand and analyse the relationship between politics and religion in Ivory Coast. The relationship between the former President Laurent Gbagbo and the Evangelical Church expresses this relationship that has always existed between the two entities in a spirit of religious freedom recognized by the Head of the State by all citizens and the impact that this relationship had on the evolution of the Ivorian crisis. Since colonial times to the time of independence, from Felix Houphouët Boigny to Henri Konan Bédié, to Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara, they have all forged close ties with their religious community. The case of the former President Laurent Gbagbo w
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UN diplomat: Ivory Coast's Gbagbo ready to quit
Surrounded by troops backing Ivory Coast's democratically elected leader, strongman Laurent Gbagbo huddled Tuesday with his family in a bunker and played his final hand, trying to wrest last-ditch concessions as he negotiated the terms of his surrender.
Down the hill from his luxurious compound, dozens of Gbagbo's soldiers were seen entering a church where they stripped off their uniforms and abandoned their weapons. Earlier, Gbagbo's three top generals said they had ordered their men to stop fighting, the United Nations said in a statement.
The developments spell game over for a man who refused to accept defeat in last year's election and took his country to the precipice of civil war in his bid to preserve power. His security forces are accused of using cannons, 60 mm mortars and caliber machine guns to mow down opponents in the four months since his rival, Alassane Ouattara, was declared the winner of the contested vote.
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Laurent and Simone Gbagbo: The end of Côte d'Ivoire's most political couple
The former president and his spouse announced their divorce after a year struggle for power.
A historic pairing in Ivorian politics has officially come to an end. Some 50 years of companionship, militancy, imprisonment, and exercise of power. Laurent Gbagbo and Simone Ehivet Gbagbo were married in and officially divorced 34 years later, on June Ehivet's lawyer, Ange Rodrigue Dadjé, said the divorce was "to the exclusive detriment of Mr. Gbagbo for characterized and notorious adultery, abandonment of the marital home, and serious insults to Ms. Simone." It will be up to the former president, "who was so keen to divorce," to drop "his appeal against the divorce decision so that his wish can finally become a reality." In Côte d'Ivoire, the Gbagbo divorce fryst vatten more than a just family matter.
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