Former Côte d’Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo pleads not guilty at the International Criminal Court to crimes against humanity and war crimes, in the court’s first trial of a former head of ...

Laurent Gbagbo, Former Ivory Coast Leader, Acquitted of Crimes Against Humanity. Share full article. Laurent Gbagbo faced a litany of charges related to the violence that followed the 2010 ...

If Laurent Gbagbo, the besieged Ivory Coast strongman who appears near to losing power, ever needed an ally in Washington, it's now.. And he has one apparently, Sen. James Inhofe, the conservative ...

Gbagbo led Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2010, then refused to concede defeat to opponent Alassane Ouattara. The fighting between their supporters brought Ivory Coast back to the brink of civil war ...

Supporters of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo, celebrate in the Yopougon district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday Jan. 15, 2019.

The African Union's human rights court has rejected petitions by former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and former prime minister Guillaume Soro to overturn bans on their running in the country's ...

Laurent Gbagbo: A Strongman’s Last Stand . With hundreds of people massacred, and armed militiamen roaming the streets, the final battle for control of Ivory Coast draws near.

Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa — Laurent Gbagbo, who has clung to power in Ivory Coast despite his defeat last fall in U.N.-certified elections, called for a cease-fire Tuesday after ...

Laurent Gbagbo addresses delegates of his newly formed political party, the African People's Party-Ivory Coast, PPA-CI, in Abidjan Sunday Oct. 17, 2021. ...

Last week, a landmark trial began at the International Criminal Court. Laurent Gbagbo, the former president of Côte d’Ivoire, and Charles Blé Goudé, who was youth and employment minister in Gbagbo’s ...

Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has surrendered and asked for U.N. protection, according to an internal U.N. document seen by Reuters. It was not clear if he was physically in custody.