A mutiny within Côte d'Ivoire's military evolved into a coup d'état in 2000, and General Robert Guéï was installed as the first military ruler of Côte d'Ivoire.
[1] A group opposed to the military regime staged a new coup d'état in 2002.
[2] She was buried, reportedly to public indifference, on May 5, 2006, in front of Saint-Paul Cathedral in the Plateau area of Abidjan north, but her remains are now located at the municipal cemetery of Port-Bouët in Abidjan south.
[3] Following the assassinations, Laurent Gbagbo became Côte d'Ivoire's President, having emerged victorious from the First Ivorian Civil War, during which many thousands were killed.
Franck Guéï, the eldest son of Robert and Rose Doudou Guéï, allied himself with Gbagbo, and was Côte d'Ivoire's Minister of Sports, Youth and Leisure until Gbagbo was overthrown during the Second Ivorian Civil War in 2011.