Ivory coast president biography outline

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 support its claims of effective occupation, France again assumes direct control of its West African coastal trading posts and embarked on an accelerated programme of exploring the interior.

1878-1898 - Wassoulou Empire or Mandinka Empire spanning southwestern Mali, upper Guinea, northern Ghana and Ivory Coast at its peak. Its ruler Samori Ture leads resistance to French colonial rule. French military campaigns in the 1890s against Ture are met with significant resistance. He is captured in 1898 and his empire dissolved.

1893 - Ivory Coast becomes a French colony.

1904-1958 - Ivory Coast is part of the Federation of French West Africa.

1944 - Felix Houphouet-Boigny, later to become Ivory Coast's first president, founds a union of African farmers, which develops into the inter-territorial African Democratic Rally and its Ivorian section, the Ivory Coast Democratic Party.

1958 - Ivory Coast becomes a republic within the French Community.

1960 - France grants indepen

President of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 to 2011

Koudou Laurent Gbagbo (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 people took to the streets, toppling Guéï. Gbagbo was then installed as president.

In the 2010 presidential election, Alassane Ouattara defeated Gbagbo, and was recognized as the winner by election observers, the international community, the African Union (AU), and the Economic Community of West African States. However, Gbagbo refused to step down, despite mounting international pressure. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) announced that Ouattara had won the race with 54% of the vote, a tally that the United Nations concluded was credible; however, the Constitutional Council, a body dominated by pro-Gbagbo members, annulled the results in Ouattara's electoral strongholds in the north, claiming fraud, and declared Gbagbo the winner with 51% of the vote. In December 2010, both Gbagbo and Ouattara assumed the presidency, triggering a short period of civil conflict in which about 3,000 people were killed.

Gbagbo was arrested in 201

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He collected major trophies one after another: four-time English champion, four-time FA Cup winner, three-time Community Shield winner, and twice the Premier League’s top scorer. In 2012, he won the coveted UEFA Champions League trophy and left Chelsea as the club’s player of the century, the top African scorer in the Champions League, and the top African scorer in the English Premier League.

After a brief stint in China where he spent only six months, he excelled again in Turkey with Galatasaray. He stayed there for a year and a half, enough to become the Turkish champion, win the Turkish Cup, and be named Sports Personality of the Year. At the twilight of his career, Didier signed with the Montreal Impact for a year and a half, discovering "soccer" and writing some of the club’s most beautiful history.

He concluded his professional football career at the age of 40 in the American second division with Phoenix, after twenty years of professionalism, seven hundred matches played, and over 360 goals scored.

Alongside this well-rounded career, Didier Drogba founded his foundation in 2007, aiming to use his popularity to support education, health, women, and the youth of Ivory Coast and Africa. Numerous human development projects were initiated: building a health center, schools, and setting up a mobile clinic for cardiovascular disease screening… As a man of peace, he is also the vice-president of Peace and Sport. Indeed, in 2005, following Ivory Coast’s qualification for the World Cup in Germany, he, along with his teammates, sent a message of peace to his home country, which was experiencing internal crises. This message made him one of the ten most influential people in the world according to the prestigious Times Magazine.

Co-owner of the Phoenix Rising club in the United States, Didier Drogba wishes to become more involved in sports life and help the sports youth and the rise of Ivorian football.

Didier Drogba is a success stor