Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire
The Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire is a political coalition that was formed in December 2002, in the wake of the first peace accords of the Ivorian Civil War.
A Forces nouvelles's member caught by the French Foreign Legion in 2004 after a plundering.
The First Ivorian Civil War was a civil conflict in the Ivory Coast that began with a military rebellion on 19 September 2002 and ended with a peace agreement on 4 March 2007. The conflict pitted the government of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo against a domestic insurgency led by the New Forces of Ivory Coast. Following the war, a second civil war (2010–2011) would begin over the results of the 2010 Ivorian presidential election.
Félix Houphouët-Boigny died in 1993, after 30 years in power.
President Henri Konan Bédié used Ivoirité to undermine his political rivals.
Alassane Ouattara was barred from contesting the 1995 and 2000 elections.
Rebel leader Guillaume Soro led the Patriotic Movement of Ivory Coast and the New Forces.