Koudou Laurent Gbagbo is an Ivorian politician who was the president of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. 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.
Léon Emmanuel Monnet is the Minister of Mines and Energy of Côte d'Ivoire and the mayor of Adzopé. He is a member of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI).
Simone Ehivet Gbagbo is an Ivorian politician. She is the President of the Parliamentary Group of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) and is a Vice-President of the FPI. As the wife of Laurent Gbagbo,the President of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 to 2011,she was also First Lady of Ivory Coast prior to their arrest by pro-Ouattara forces.
Mamadou Koulibaly is an Ivorian politician,Chairman of LIDER,a classical liberal political party he founded in July 2011. Previously,he was President of the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire from 2001 to 2011,Minister of the Budget in 2000 and Minister of Economy and Finance from 2000 to 2001. For years he was leading member of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI),briefly leading the party in an interim capacity in 2011 before quitting it.
Abou Nidal de Genève is the stage name of Aboubakar Doumbia born on December 29,1974,in Divo,Ivorian composer,performer and producer. His pseudonym is linked to the fact that he lived for many years in Geneva,Switzerland. His nickname is also Wara Boss in reference to the Wara Tour.
Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport,also known as Port Bouët Airport,is located 16 km south east of Abidjan,Ivory Coast. It is the largest airport in the country for air traffic. The airport is the main hub of the national airline Air Côte d'Ivoire. Named after the first president of Ivory Coast,Félix Houphouët-Boigny,this international airport is directly connected currently to airports in Europe and to many destinations within the rest of Africa and the Middle East. The airport is served by 21 airlines,covering more than 30 destinations.
Dominique Claudine Nouvian Ouattara is the current First Lady of Ivory Coast,married to President Alassane Ouattara.
Makoukou Célestine Ouezzin Coulibaly-Traoré was an anti-colonial leader in French West Africa. She helped to set up the women's section of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain in Côte d'Ivoire and Upper Volta,becoming its secretary general in 1948. In 1958,she was appointed Upper Volta's Minister of Social Affairs,probably making her the first woman to join a cabinet in any of the French-speaking West African governments.
Danièle Boni-Claverie is a journalist and politician in the Ivory Coast. She served in the country's cabinet and was founding president of the Union Républicaine pour la démocratie.
Aboudramane Sangaré,also spelled Abou Drahamane Sangaré,was an Ivorian politician and co-founder of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) political party. He served as Foreign Minister of Ivory Coast from October 2000 to March 2003 under President Laurent Gbagbo,a close political ally. Sangare was president of a dissident,pro-Gbagbo faction of Ivorian Popular Front members at the time of his death in 2018.
Véronique Bra Kanon is an Ivorian politician and vice-president of the National Assembly of the Ivory Coast. She was the first woman to be president of an Ivorian regional council,leading the council of Moronou from 2013 to 2018.
Euphrasie Kouassi Yao is an Ivorian politician,who is the current special advisor to president Alassane Ouattara in charge of gender. She has also served as the Minister for the Promotion of Women,Family and Child Protection,and as a UNESCO chair on their committee on Water,Women and Decision-making.
Kandia Camara is an Ivorian teacher and politician who is the President of the Senate of Ivory Coast since 12 October 2023. She is the former minister of foreign affairs in the government of President Alassane Ouattara.
Agnès Kraidy is an Ivorian magazine editor and journalist. Since April 2014,she has been the President of the Network of Women Journalists and Communication in Ivory Coast.
The African People's Party –Côte d'Ivoire is an Ivorian political party founded in 2021 in the wake of the return to Côte d'Ivoire of former President Laurent Gbagbo,who preferred creating this new formation rather than trying to retake the position of head of the party which he had created in 1982 with his wife Simone Gbagbo,the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI).
Mariama Suzanne KonatéMaïga is a Malian medical doctor and public health administrator who served as Mali's secretary of state for social action and the promotion of women in 1991 to 92. She also worked for the United Nations Population Fund.
Martine Aya Djibo was an Ivorian educator and politician who served in the National Assembly from 1975 until 1980 and from 1990 until 2010. Although initially a member of the PDCI-RDA party,she defected in 2004 and founded the Party for the Unity of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire,citing frustrations with the party amid the First Ivorian Civil War.
Marie Koré born Zogbo Céza Galo Marie was an Ivory Coast independence fighter. She was arrested while leading the Women's march on Grand-Bassam on 24 December 1949. She died young and she has appeared on her country's banknotes. One poll said that she was the most well known woman in the Ivory Coast.
Anne Gnahouret Tatret is an Ivorian politician. Whilst finishing her legal studies in 1978,Gnahouret became the head of the legal department of the autonomous port of San-Pédro. She worked there until 2000,also pursuing a political career. She joined the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) under the patronage of Émile Boga Doudou. From 2002,she served as a diplomat,being the Ivorian ambassador to Angola,Mexico and Cuba. She was included on a 2011 list of Ivorian politicians against which the European Union had laid sanctions.
Anne-Marie Essy Raggi was an Ivorian politician and symbol of the anti-colonial struggle. She led the women's march in Grand-Bassam,was an honorary member of the national board of the Ivorian Women's Association,and president of the AFI of Grand-Bassam.
