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20-625: On June 29, 2007, Guillaume Soro , the prime minister of Côte d'Ivoire, was targeted by rocket and Kalashnikov fire upon his landing at the Bouaké Airport. Four people were killed and ten others were wounded. This Vallée du Bandama District location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an airport in Ivory Coast is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Guillaume Soro Guillaume Kigbafori Soro (born 8 May 1972)

40-626: A former Ivorian rebel leader, in which Guillaume Soro is believed to have been implicated in the assassination. [1] . Following a peace agreement in January 2003, Soro was appointed to the government as Minister of Communications. The New Forces ministers began a boycott of cabinet meetings in September 2003, returning in January 2004. After an opposition demonstration held in Abidjan in March 2004

60-402: A peace deal signed on 4 March 2007, Soro was considered a possible candidate for Prime Minister and received Gbagbo's endorsement. In an interview published on 26 March, Soro said that he would be willing to assume the position. Gbagbo officially appointed him on 29 March, Soro took office on 4 April, and his 32 ministers were named on 7 April, many of whom served under his predecessor. In

80-469: A speech on 13 April, Soro apologized "to everybody and on behalf of everybody" for the harm caused by the rebellion. On 30 July, Soro and Gbagbo participated in a "peace flame" disarmament ceremony, which involved the burning of weapons to symbolize the end of the conflict. The peace agreement barred Soro from standing in the 2010 presidential election , and he told Jeune Afrique in a March 2008 interview that he would discuss his political future after

100-468: A year, Soro resigned on 8 March 2012. He was then elected as President of the National Assembly on 12 March 2012, a move that ensured that he would remain a key figure on the political scene. There were no other candidates for the post. In 2016 Burkina Faso issued an international arrest warrant for Soro for his alleged role in the 2015 Burkinabé coup d'état . Standing as the candidate of

120-500: Is also a book publisher, under the imprint "Les Éditions du Jaguar". Starting in 1997, Jeune Afrique has also maintained a news website. Published on a weekly basis for its first sixty years, it has been published monthly since 2020. Jeune Afrique was co-founded by Béchir Ben Yahmed , then minister of information of Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba , and other Tunisian intellectuals in Tunis on 17 October 1960. The founders of

140-782: Is an Ivorian politician who was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from April 2007 to March 2012. Prior to his service as Prime Minister, Soro led the Patriotic Movement of Côte d'Ivoire , and later the New Forces as its Secretary-General . In March 2012, Soro became President of the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire . He stepped down from that position in February 2019, announcing in June 2019 that he

160-547: Is running to succeed President Alassane Ouattara . Soro is a Sénoufo from Ferkessédougou (northern Côte d'Ivoire) and is of the Catholic faith. Father of 4 children, he shares his life with Sylvie Tagro. His father was a member of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI). Soro led the Patriotic Movement of Côte d'Ivoire (MPCI) in a September 2002 rebellion against President Laurent Gbagbo that triggered

180-543: The French nationalist Charles Martel Group . The magazine has an edition published for Tunisia, which has been suspended several times for covering sensitive news concerning the country. For instance, from July 1984 to January 1985 it was banned in the country. In June 1989 the magazine was also banned in Morocco . During this period, it had a circulation of around 13,000 copies in the country. The COVID-19 crisis and

200-869: The Ivorian Civil War . In December 2002 Soro's MPCI combined with two other rebel groups, the Ivorian Popular Movement of the Great West (MPIGO) and the Movement for Justice and Peace (MJP), to form the New Forces ( Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire ). He was appointed Secretary-General of the New Forces. In July 2023, an investigating judge in Paris, France was appointed to investigate the April 2011 assassination of Ibrahima Coulibaly,

220-466: The 252 deputies present; Evariste Méambly, an independent deputy, received 12 votes, and there were 10 spoilt votes. On 29 June 2007, a Fokker 100 carrying Prime Minister Soro, members of his delegation, and 20 journalists was taxiing on a runway at an airport in Bouaké when it was targeted by rocket and Kalashnikov fire. One rocket struck and exploded in the cabin, one missed, and a third bounced off

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240-629: The Gbagbo-allied Constitutional Council announced their results of the 2010 poll and Gbagbo was sworn in, Soro resigned as prime minister, supporting opposition candidate Alassane Ouattara . Ouattara had been declared the winner by the electoral commission, and he reappointed Soro after taking the oath of office at a rival ceremony. Soro was elected to the National Assembly in the December 2011 parliamentary election . After serving as Ouattara's prime minister for over

260-426: The election. It was rumored that Soro and Gbagbo made a secret agreement whereby Soro would support Gbagbo in the election and, in exchange, Gbagbo would back Soro in the subsequent presidential election. Soro dismissed this as "gossip," describing himself as an "arbiter of the electoral process," and further said the New Forces would not back any candidate and that its members could vote for whomever they wished. When

280-559: The fuselage and did not detonate. Soro wasn't injured, but four people were killed and ten others wounded. Those who died were Security Chief Drissa Ouattara, the Prime Minister's bodyguard Siaka Diomandé, and Protocole d’Etat members Sékou Doumbia and Souleymane Sérifou. Arrests were subsequently reported. Soro stated that he intended to compete in the Ivorian presidential election on 31 October 2020 . On April 29, 2020, Soro

300-455: The magazine went by the name of Jeune Afrique L'intelligent . Jeune Afrique is published by Jeune Afrique Media Group, which also publishes the monthly English-language news magazine The Africa Report . The headquarters of the magazine in Paris has been attacked in France two times, once, in 1986, and the other time, in January 1987. Responsibility for the latter attack was claimed by

320-540: The print media situation in France has led to the ongoing digitalization of Jeune Afrique . In early December 2020, Jeune Afrique' s management announced the first redundancy plan in its history due to declining economic results caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2023 sale of Jeune Afrique was banned in Burkina Faso , when the country's military government took offence at articles alleging tensions in

340-453: The ruling coalition, the Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace , in the city of Ferkessédougou , Soro was re-elected to the National Assembly in the December 2016 parliamentary election with 98.7% of the vote. When the National Assembly began meeting for the new parliamentary term, Soro was re-elected as President of the National Assembly on 9 January 2017. He received 230 votes from

360-774: The weekly moved to Paris due to strict censorship imposed during the presidency of Habib Bourgiba. The magazine covers African political, economic and cultural spheres, with an emphasis on Francophone Africa and the Maghreb . Jeune Afrique covered the emerging fedayeen movement of the Palestine Liberation Organization immediately after the 1967 war between the Arab states and Israel. The magazine published an interview with Yasser Arafat in May 1968. From 2000 (issue 2040) to early 2006 (issue 2354),

380-582: Was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison on charges of embezzling public funds and money laundering . Jeune Afrique Jeune Afrique (English: Young Africa ) is a French-language pan-African weekly news magazine , founded in 1960 in Tunis and subsequently published in Paris by Jeune Afrique Media Group. It is the most widely read pan-African magazine. It offers coverage of African and international political, economic and cultural news. It

400-466: Was violently broken up, President Gbagbo dismissed Soro and two other ministers from their positions. Soro denounced the dismissals, saying they were effectively a coup by Gbagbo against the peace agreement. On 9 August 2004 Soro was reinstated. On 28 December 2005, Soro was appointed Minister of Reconstruction and Reintegration by Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny . He attended his first cabinet meeting in this capacity on 15 March 2006. Following

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