Taxi driver Alain is so disillusioned with Ivory Coast's politicians that he and other residents of Abidjan's Yopougon ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Years after she was holed up in a bunker alongside her then-husband and president who had refused to ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo launched a new political party Saturday, formally breaking ties with those who ran his former party while he spent years facing war ...

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He gave both thumbs up to his lawyer when the verdict was announced. For Laurent Gbagbo, it is over. After a decade-long trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC), he is finally free. On 31 ...

In 2011, with Côte d’Ivoire’s post-election crisis in full flow, Fatou Diabaté (not her real name) was raped in Abidjan by soldiers loyal to Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo. She courageously told her ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Former President Laurent Gbagbo returned home to Ivory Coast on Thursday, a decade after his refusal to concede defeat in a presidential election sparked months of violence ...

A panel of judges at the International Criminal Court has dismissed charges of war crimes against former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, the first former head of state to stand trial at the ICC.

June 17 (UPI) --Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo returned to the country for the first time in 10 years on Thursday after he was acquitted of charges of crimes against humanity by the ...