Ivory coast president biography outline
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Ivory Coast country profile
Some key dates in the history of Ivory Coast:
A number of important states flourished in Ivory Coast during the pre-European early modern period.
17th Century - Abron kingdom of Gyaaman established by an Akan group fleeing the developing Ashanti confederation of in present-day Ghana. The kingdom's Quranic scholars attract students from all parts of West Africa.
Mid-17th Century - Other Akan groups fleeing the Asante establish a Baoulé kingdom at Sakasso and two Agni kingdoms, Indénié and Sanwi
18th Century - Muslim Kong Empire established by the Dyula in the north-central region inhabited by the Sénoufo, who had fled Islamization under the Mali Empire.
1843-44 - France imposes protectorate over coastal zone and begins a gradual colonisation of Ivory Coast.
1871 - After defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, France abandon some of its colonial ambitions and withdraw military garrisons from its West African trading posts.
1886 - To
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Laurent Gbagbo
President of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 to 2011
Koudou Laurent Gbagbo[note 2][3] (Gagnoa Bété: Gbagbo[ɡ͡baɡ͡bo]; French pronunciation:[loʁɑ̃baɡbo]; born 31 May 1945) is an Ivorian politician who was 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. Gbagbo founded the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) in 1982 and ran unsuccessfully for president against Félix Houphouët-Boigny at the start of multi-party politics in 1990. He won a seat in the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire in 1990.
Gbagbo claimed victory after Robert Guéï, head of a military junta, barred other leading politicians from running in the October 2000 presidential election. The Ivorian peop