Кот-д’Ивуар Жастары және Отаншылдар Конгресі: Лаурент Гбагбо қолдаушыларының қозғалысы

The Congrès Panafricain des Jeunes et des Patriotes (COJEP), commonly known as Young Patriots of Ivory Coast, is the name given to a youth movement supportive of then President of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo and his ruling Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) party. Its founder is Charles Blé Goudé. Set up in June 2001, the group attracted controversy and international condemnation due to its alleged involvement in extra judicial killings and for organising demonstrations which often turned violent. The organisation is nationalist and opposed to the Islamification of the country, with Gbagbo's supporters tend to be Christians from the south, as opposed to the rebel forces from the largely Muslim north, which fought the First Ivorian Civil War against the Gbagbo government from 2002 to 2006. The organisation itself claims that it rejects violence, and that it has been misrepresented in the Western media, especially that of France.

January 16, 2006, the Young Patriots were involved in violent demonstrations against the UN, and in one incident, at least four were killed after an exchange of fire at a UN peacekeeper's camp. UN peacekeepers are allowed to shoot if they come under violent attack. The crisis began after UN mediators called for the National Assembly (Ivory Coast) to be dissolved and for Gbagbo's mandate to end. During the days that followed, two thousand youths clashed with UN peacekeepers. The Young Patriots seized control of the offices of Ivory Coast's state owned television channel, RTI, and broadcast repeated messages to attack the UN base in Daloa, as well as French targets. They also reportedly ransacked a community radio station, Radio Tchrato Daloa which had refused to let them in, as well as besieging a UN base and the French embassy for two days, until on January 20, Blé Goudé called for them to go home and "clean up the streets".

The Young Patriots described themselves as fighting against "neo colonialism and imperialism". They claimed that France, which formerly colonised the country, had a stranglehold on the Ivorian economy, with most ports and major companies being French owned. Up until the start of the civil war, millions of refugees had entered Ivory Coast from neighbouring countries such as Mali, Burkina Faso, Liberia and Sierra Leone to escape hunger and conflict. This produced resentment in the native population, as immigrants provided cheap labour and were perceived to be taking their jobs, especially in poorer areas of Abidjan, where support for the Young Patriots is strongest. The Young Patriots are hostile to the rebel forces in the north of the country, which is largely dominated by Muslims, often poor migrant workers from neighbouring nations. Only people between the ages of 20 and 32, of Ivorian descent or whose parents are both Ivorian, are allowed to become members of the organisation. This policy excludes many people from the north of the country, who migrated there more than 40 years earlier, prior to the country's 1960 independence from France. The organisation has been blamed for violent attacks on "foreigners" who do not match this definition. The organisation is heavily supportive of Gbagbo, and Blé Goudé, its leader, has been described as "the fourth most powerful man in the country". Despite the violent actions by some demonstrators, he compares himself to Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. and claims to use pacifist resistance.