The Alliance des jeunes patriotes pour le sursaut national ( Alliance of Young Patriots for National Survival) commonly known as Young Patriots, of Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire

The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast is a country in West Africa. It has an area of , and borders the countries Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana; its southern boundary is along the Gulf of Guinea. The country's population was 15,366,672 in 1998 and was estimated to be...

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Organisation

A youth movement supportive of the President of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo

Laurent Gbagbo

Laurent Koudou Gbagbo served as the fourth President of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. A historian by profession, he is also an amateur chemist and physicist....

 and his ruling Ivorian Popular Front

Ivorian Popular Front

The Ivorian Popular Front , known by its French initials FPI, is a centre-left, democratic socialist and social democratic, political party in Côte d'Ivoire....

 (FPI) party. Its founder, and current leader, is Charles Blé Goudé

Charles Blé Goudé

Charles Blé Goudé is an Ivorian political leader, born at Guibéroua, in the center west of the country.-Creator of the Young Patriots:...

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The group formed in 2002, as a wider, and more militant coalition of nationalist groups, led by Blé Goudé's Congrès Panafricaine des Jeunes Patriotes

Congrès Panafricaine des Jeunes Patriotes

The Congrès Panafricain des Jeunes et des Patriotes , commonly known as Young Patriots, of Côte d'Ivoire is the name given to a youth movement supportive of the former President of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo and his ruling Ivorian Popular Front party...

(COJEP), which still is the dominant organization.

This new organisation incorporated:

• COJEP - Blé Goudé's original organisation
• la Fédération des étudiants et scolaires de Côte d'Ivoire (FESCI) - another student organization loyal to Gbagbo
• The campaign to repatriate Alassane Ouattara
  Alassane Ouattara
  Alassane Dramane Ouattara is an Ivorian politician who has been President of Côte d'Ivoire since 2011. An economist by profession, Ouattara worked for the International Monetary Fund and the Central Bank of West African States , and he was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November 1990 to...
  
  , an Ivorian Muslim
  Muslim
  A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
  
   politician and opponent of Gbagbo who originally came from Burkina Faso
  Burkina Faso
  Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...
  
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• Thierry Legré's "Movement for the Republican Conscience".

Directors

The principal directors are:

• Charles Blé Goudé
  Charles Blé Goudé
  Charles Blé Goudé is an Ivorian political leader, born at Guibéroua, in the center west of the country.-Creator of the Young Patriots:...
  
  , Secretary-general;
• Jean-Yves Dibopieu, former Secretary-general of FESCI;
• Richard Dacoury
  Richard Dacoury
  Richard Dacoury is a former French basketball player, and the French sportsman to have won the most trophies.-Career in clubs:*CRO Lyon *CSP Limoges *Paris BR -Club honours:...
  
  , président de la Sorbonne;
• Idriss Ouattara, président des agoras et parlements de Côte d'Ivoire;
• Ahoua Stallone, porte-parole;
• Koné Seydou;
• Thierry Légré.

See also

• Congrès Panafricaine des Jeunes Patriotes
  Congrès Panafricaine des Jeunes Patriotes
  The Congrès Panafricain des Jeunes et des Patriotes , commonly known as Young Patriots, of Côte d'Ivoire is the name given to a youth movement supportive of the former President of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo and his ruling Ivorian Popular Front party...
  
  
• Charles Blé Goudé
  Charles Blé Goudé
  Charles Blé Goudé is an Ivorian political leader, born at Guibéroua, in the center west of the country.-Creator of the Young Patriots:...
  
  
• Fédération des étudiants et scolaires de Côte d'Ivoire (FESCI)
• Ivorian Civil War