Belgium will take in former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo following a request from the International Criminal Court which freed him from detention earlier, Belgian News Agency Belga said on Saturday.
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The verdict was to the joy of dancing supporters and frustration of victims of atrocities.
The wife of former President Laurent Gbagbo, whose refusal to accept electoral defeat triggered the war, walked out of Abidjan’s Ecole de Gendarmerie in which she had been detained since 2013.
Paul Ongiu, popularly known as Baba Owino, is an MP in the opposition party of Raila Odinga, who faces Kenyatta in an election re-run in October after August’s poll results were thrown out over irregularities.
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Soyinka said Nigerians must show a Nelson Mandela-like ability to forgive the past of president-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as an iron-fisted military ruler
The ultimate test of her popularity is not by manipulating government agencies and mobilising armed supporters to frustrate APC rallies as witnessed at Okrika but to mobilise the people of Rivers State to vote for her husband or herself whenever she decides to contest the governorship election
Gbagbo, who is also wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity, was tried along with 82 other allies of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo
Obasanjo, who spoke on Saturday, likened President Jonathan to former Ivorian leader, Laurent Gbagbo, who was disgraced out of power and set his country on the path of crisis in his bid to sit tight as the country’s president
On Thursday the ICC unsealed an arrest warrant it had issued for Gbagbo in February of this year, on four counts of crimes against humanity during post-election violence in 2010 – murder, rape and other forms of sexual violence, and other inhumane acts and persecution