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Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara offered a hearty welcome to his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday as the rivals met for the first time since the West African country’s deadly 2010-11 conflict.

Ivory Coast rivals Alassane Ouattara, Laurent Gbagbo meet decade after war

3 days ago

FILE PHOTO - Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo appears before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands February 6, 2020, Netherlands February 6, 2020. Jerry Lampen-Pool via REUTERS

Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo due to meet President Ouattara

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A former Assistant Director with the Department of State Services, Dennis Amachree, on Friday, said Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, should have joined the South-West Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun.

How Sunday Igboho was arrested in Benin Republic

2 weeks ago

A former Assistant Director with the Department of State Services, Dennis Amachree, on Friday, said Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, should have joined the South-West Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun.

Interpol arrested Sunday Igboho, wife in Benin Republic – lawyer

2 weeks ago

A former Assistant Director with the Department of State Services, Dennis Amachree, on Friday, said Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, should have joined the South-West Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun.

Banji Akintoye confirms Sunday Ighoho’s arrest in Benin Republic

2 weeks ago

Men of Amotekun Corps in Osun State have arrested two suspects, Friday and Toyib for allegedly stealing female underwear for ritual purposes.

Yoruba group demands arrest of killers of Amotekun commander

2 weeks ago

Two former Ivory Coast presidents and longterm political rivals, Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bedie, on Sunday said they were uniting in opposition to current head of state Allasane Ouattara.

Ivory Coast ex-rivals unite against Allasane Ouattara

3 weeks ago

FILE PHOTO - Sudanese people from the Arabic tribe of Ibn Halba celebrate retaking their stolen cows near the camp of Kalma in Nyala, in the south Darfur region, October 9, 2004.-File Photo

ICC judges order first trial for Darfur war crimes

3 weeks ago

Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo delivers a speech during a meeting with traditional chiefs and members of his party at his residence in Mama on June 28, 2021. – Gbagbo was able to return in his home town after having been definitively acquitted by the ICC on charges stemming from violence that claimed around 3,000 lives after he refused to concede electoral defeat in 2010 to current President Alassane Ouattara. (Photo by SIA KAMBOU / AFP)

Ex-ICC prisoner Laurent Gbagbo in Congo for former jail-mate’s bash

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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo

Laurent Gbagbo files for divorce, to end 30-year marriage

June 21, 2021

A supporter holds a poster of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo during the preparation of his return after being acquitted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes, at his party's headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Coast June 16, 2021. The poster reads "With your return, the Ivorians are hoping for a real reconciliation". REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Former president Laurent Gbagbo touches down in Ivory Coast after decade of exile

June 17, 2021

A supporter holds a poster of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo during the preparation of his return after being acquitted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes, at his party's headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Coast June 16, 2021. The poster reads "With your return, the Ivorians are hoping for a real reconciliation". REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Ivory Coast: Police fire teargas as crowds mass to welcome back ousted president Laurent Gbagbo

June 17, 2021

A supporter holds a poster of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo during the preparation of his return after being acquitted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes, at his party's headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Coast June 16, 2021. The poster reads "With your return, the Ivorians are hoping for a real reconciliation". REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Ivory Coast’s former president flies home after decade in exile

June 17, 2021

Gani Adams drags Nigerian government before UN, AU, US, others over insecurity

June 17, 2021

British lawyer Karim Asad Ahmad Khan has been sworn in as the new chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

ICC swears in Karim Khan as new chief prosecutor

June 16, 2021