National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire

National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire (in French

French language

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: Comité National de Libération de la Côte d'Ivoire) was an Ivorian

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...

opposition group, with its political origins in the Party of the African Rally (PRA). CNLCI was founded in Conakry

Conakry

Conakry is the capital and largest city of Guinea. Conakry is a port city on the Atlantic Ocean and serves as the economic, financial and cultural centre of Guinea with a 2009 population of 1,548,500...

on May 18, 1959 by a group of Ivorian exiles. CNLCI promoted the formation of an 'United States of Africa

United States of Africa

The United States of Africa is a proposed name for the concept of a federation of some or all of the 55 sovereign states of Africa.Former Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, who was the 2009 Chairperson of the African Union , advanced the idea of a United States of Africa at two regional African...

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Gbagbo, Laurent
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....

: Côte d'Ivoire, Pour une alternative démocratique. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1983.

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