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Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo launched a new political party Saturday, October 17, formally breaking ties with those who ran his former party while he spent years facing war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court. Gbagbo, 76, who returned home in June after his acquittal was upheld, announced a …

The restrictions that were placed on the former President of Cote d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, and his ex-Minister of Sports and Youth, Charles Blé Goudé, after being freed on all charges of crimes against humanity, have been lifted. The trial of the two politicians, for the crimes allegedly committed during post-electoral …

International Criminal Court judges should scrap conditions of release imposed on Ivory Coast’s former president, his lawyers argued Thursday in a move they hope will free Laurent Gbagbo to return home during a tense election year. Gbagbo and former youth minister Charles Ble Goude were both acquitted in January 2019 …