Outgoing Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, who refuses to recognize the victory of Alassane Ouattara, was clinging to power to plunge his country into the war before entrenched in a bunker under fire from the United Nations (UN) and France. Gbagbo was facing down his opponents and the international community as it has done over the crisis generated by the presidential November 28, 2010.
For the moment, France and the UN asked to sign a waiver to power in Ivory Coast and recognize Ouattara as president. His refusal to leave power comes days after violent clashes in the country, which, according to the UN-left "several hundred dead" in Abidjan, and after a bloody four-month post-election crisis, the fighting had ceased.
Bombardments against the heavy weapons of the forces of lame precipitated the collapse of his regime, after more than a decade of power and an eight-day blitzkrieg of the pro-Ouattara, arrivals from the North. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Gbagbo and one of his closest associates, Alcide Djedje, was playing a key role in the epilogue in progress.
Djedje was presented to the French ambassador's residence, next door to Gbagbo, to negotiate a cease-fire "on demand", he said, the outgoing president. Gbagbo, a former opponent of the "Father of the Nation" Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who through a controversial election in 2000 he became president, never conceded defeat in the presidential November 28, 2010, despite this being a UN certified polls.
Ever since then refused to leave office or go into exile. Activist and Marxist university professor who challenged the autocratic rule of Felix Houphouet-Boigny, first president of Ivory Coast since independence. That caused him imprisoned for two years in 1971. Since then he was a nationalist.
His supporters have been accused of xenophobic rhetoric to mostly Muslim immigrants from neighboring Burkina Faso and Mali, the main feeling behind the civil war in 2002 and 2003. Came to power in 2000 and his tenure ended in 2005, but the presidential elections were delayed until 2010 due to instability in the West African country.
He faced France, former colonial power in 2004, when the Ivorian army killed nine peacekeepers Gauls in a bombing. Paris retaliated by destroying the Ivorian air force. From the largely Muslim north of Ivory Coast's former prime minister of post-independence president of the country Felix Houphouet-Boigny.
Alassane Ouattara earned a reputation for good economic management and then joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he became director general. The former prime minister was barred from the elections of 2000 for allegedly being from Burkina Faso after the coup leader Robert Guei, tightened the law to ban those who do not have two Ivorian parents.
His campaign promises included the reform of the cocoa sector to provide half the international price to farmers, in line with the Government's plans to Gbagbo. 
For the moment, France and the UN asked to sign a waiver to power in Ivory Coast and recognize Ouattara as president. His refusal to leave power comes days after violent clashes in the country, which, according to the UN-left "several hundred dead" in Abidjan, and after a bloody four-month post-election crisis, the fighting had ceased.
Bombardments against the heavy weapons of the forces of lame precipitated the collapse of his regime, after more than a decade of power and an eight-day blitzkrieg of the pro-Ouattara, arrivals from the North. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Gbagbo and one of his closest associates, Alcide Djedje, was playing a key role in the epilogue in progress.
Djedje was presented to the French ambassador's residence, next door to Gbagbo, to negotiate a cease-fire "on demand", he said, the outgoing president. Gbagbo, a former opponent of the "Father of the Nation" Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who through a controversial election in 2000 he became president, never conceded defeat in the presidential November 28, 2010, despite this being a UN certified polls.
Ever since then refused to leave office or go into exile. Activist and Marxist university professor who challenged the autocratic rule of Felix Houphouet-Boigny, first president of Ivory Coast since independence. That caused him imprisoned for two years in 1971. Since then he was a nationalist.
His supporters have been accused of xenophobic rhetoric to mostly Muslim immigrants from neighboring Burkina Faso and Mali, the main feeling behind the civil war in 2002 and 2003. Came to power in 2000 and his tenure ended in 2005, but the presidential elections were delayed until 2010 due to instability in the West African country.
He faced France, former colonial power in 2004, when the Ivorian army killed nine peacekeepers Gauls in a bombing. Paris retaliated by destroying the Ivorian air force. From the largely Muslim north of Ivory Coast's former prime minister of post-independence president of the country Felix Houphouet-Boigny.
Alassane Ouattara earned a reputation for good economic management and then joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he became director general. The former prime minister was barred from the elections of 2000 for allegedly being from Burkina Faso after the coup leader Robert Guei, tightened the law to ban those who do not have two Ivorian parents.
His campaign promises included the reform of the cocoa sector to provide half the international price to farmers, in line with the Government's plans to Gbagbo.
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