Simone Gbagbo
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| Simone Ehivet Gbagbo | |
 First Lady of Côte d'Ivoire |
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End of Mandate 2008 |
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| Political Party: | Front populaire ivoirien |
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| Predecessor: | Henriette Konan Bédié |
| Successor : | - |
| Born : | 1949 Moossou, à Grand-Bassam |
| Spouse : | Laurent Gbagbo |
| Religion : | Evangelical |
Simone Ehivet Gbagbo is the first lady of Côte d'Ivoire, married to Laurent Gbagbo, President of Côte d'Ivoire. A former government Deputy, she is current head of the Front populaire ivoirien, the ruling party since 2000.
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[edit] Biography
Born in 1949 in the Moossou neighborhood of Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, her parents are Ehivet Ehivet Jean, a local police officer and Marie Djaha. Gbagbo trained as an historian and earned a "3rd cycle Doctorate in oral literature. She has worked in Applied Linguistics, as a Marxist labor union leader, and is an Evangelical Christian in a church with close ties to the United States. She is the mother of five daughters, the last two with her current husband Laurent Gbagbo. She has been nicknamed in the Ivorian press the Hillary Clinton des tropiques.[1] Ehivet Gbagbo participated in the teachers strike movement of 1982, and helped found, with her future husband, the clandestine political group which became the Front populaire ivoirien. An active trades union militant in the 1970, she was imprisoned a number of times in the 1970s during the struggle for multiparty elections .
Elected as a Deputy for the FPI to the National Assembly, she is also head of the FPI parliamentary block.
[edit] Controversy
Simone Gbagbo is a contoversial figure in Côte d'Ivoire. Involved in nationalist politcs surrounding the Ivorian Civil War, in 2005 Radio France International reported that she was being investigated by the United Nations for human rights abuses, including organising death squads.[2]
[edit] Refereneces
- This article was first created from a translation of the French Wikipedia article fr:Simone Gbagbo, 2008-02-22.
- "Paroles d?honneur"" : Ou quand Simone Gbagbo dénonce la collusion entre Alassane Ouattara, Blaise Compaoré et Jacques Chirac. Jean-Pierre BEJOT, La Dépêche Diplomatique. 21 March 2007.
- Simone Gbagbo, Femme fatale: Vincent Hugeux, L'Express 20 February2003.
- RETOUR SUR Affaire Kieffer : un témoin implique Simone Gbagbo. THOMAS HOFNUNG, liberation 19 February 2008.
- La dame d'ivoire, Thomas HOFNUNG: Liberation, 22 May 2007.
- Committee to Protect Journalists Ivory Coast 2006.
- Régime FPI: L'influence de Simone Gbagbo, Soir Info (Cote d'Ivoire), 12 December 2006.
- Journalists sued after revealing Ivory Coast 'billionnaires list', fairreporters.org.
- Ivory Coast First Lady Leads Death Squad, Report Alleges U.N. Panel Says Both Sides Are Committing War Crimes. Colum Lynch Washington Post Staff Writer, January 29, 2005; Page A21 .
