Profile of President Gbagbo, a resilient, controversial leader
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU Then-President Laurent Gbagbo during an official visit in West Africa in 2010 Laurent Gbagbo was born on May 31, 1945 in Gagnoa, midwest Cote d’Ivoire. He started his secondary school education at the Gagnoa Seminary and later completed it at the Lycée Classique in Abidjan. In1966, he flew to Lyon, France, to...
