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Gbagbo ally says he fears torture if returned to Ivory Coast

Agence France-PresseJune 12, 2013 12:35
A former Ivory Coast minister and key ally of ex-president Laurent Gbagbo said on Wednesday that he fears torture if he is extradited back to Ivory Coast from Ghana. Justin Kone Katinan, Gbagbo's spokesman and an ex-budget minister, has been fighting extradition since authorities in neighbouring Ghana arrested him last August. Ivorian authorities have accused him of 20 counts of robbery and conspiracy to rob, and Katinan was in the witness box for the second day to defend against those charges.

I.Coast charges Gbagbo ally with 'plotting' against state

Agence France-PresseJune 11, 2013 11:41
An Abidjan court has charged the youth leader of former president Laurent Gbagbo's party with plotting to destabilise the state, his lawyer said Tuesday. Justin Koua was arrested on June 7 and charged on Monday with "insulting the head of state, undermining national security... plotting against authority, heading and belonging to an armed gang." His lawyer Rodrigue Dadje told AFP that Koua, the youth leader of Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), was questioned by intelligence officers and locked up in Abidjan's central prison.

I.Coast charges Gbagbo ally with 'plotting' against state

Agence France-PresseJune 11, 2013 11:40
An Abidjan court has charged the youth leader of former president Laurent Gbagbo's party with plotting to destabilise the state, his lawyer said Tuesday. Justin Koua was arrested on June 7 and charged on Monday with "insulting the head of state, undermining national security... plotting against authority, heading and belonging to an armed gang." His lawyer Rodrigue Dadje told AFP that Koua, the youth leader of Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), was questioned by intelligence officers and locked up in Abidjan's central prison.

ICC wants more evidence before charging I.Coast's Gbagbo

Agence France-PresseJune 3, 2013 20:32
The International Criminal Court said Monday it wanted more evidence before deciding whether to try Ivorian ex-president Laurent Gbagbo for crimes against humanity for his role in a bloody election standoff two years ago. "The pre-trial chamber adjourned the hearing on the confirmation of charges and requested the prosecutor to consider providing further evidence or conducting a further investigation" into the charges presented against Gbagbo, the court in The Hague said in a statement.

Ivory Coast's ICC-indicted former first lady in hospital

May 7, 2013 11:12
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's former first lady, wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, was rushed to hospital on Thursday with an unspecified ailment, her lawyer and an official from her political party said. Simone Gbagbo was a leading figure in her husband Laurent's FPI party while he was president of Ivory Coast. The pair were arrested in 2011 after months of armed conflict that followed a disputed presidential election the year before.

I. Coast 'warlord' commanders plunder cocoa exports

Agence France-PresseApril 28, 2013 07:31
Warlord military commanders in Ivory Coast are making hundreds of millions of dollars by plundering the country's exports of cocoa and other resources, according to a report by UN experts. Forces Nouvelles militia leaders who took the side of President Alassane Ouattara in his showdown with Laurent Gbagbo in 2011 are part of a "military-economic network" taking advantage of "rampant" smuggling and parallel tax networks, said the report.

Low turnout for ICoast local polls amid boycott

Agence France-PresseApril 21, 2013 22:30
Ivorians turned out in low numbers for Sunday's local elections, seen as a test of stability in the west African nation in a poll boycotted by former president Laurent Gbagbo's party. The UN had appealed for calm after skirmishes during the election campaign, voicing hope that the vote would help put the country on the path to "genuine democracy". Several sources said the situation was mainly calm, but turnout for the municipal and regional polls had been low.

Low turnout for ICoast local polls amid opposition boycott

Agence France-PresseApril 21, 2013 11:00
Ivorians turned out in low numbers for local elections Sunday seen as a test for stability in the west African nation amid high tensions in the face of a boycott by former president Laurent Gbagbo's party. The UN has appealed for calm after skirmishes during the election campaign, voicing hope that the vote would help put the country on the path to "genuine democracy".

Ivorians vote in local polls amid opposition boycott

Agence France-PresseApril 21, 2013 04:47
Ivorians voted Sunday in local elections seen as a trial run for a presidential poll in 2015 amid high tensions as the party of former president Laurent Gbagbo boycotted the poll. Voting began Abidjan 's working-class Koumassi district about half an hour after the official 7:00 am (0700 GMT) starting time, with longer delays reported elsewhere in the west African country's main city and other urban centres. Ivory Coast is still recovering from years of unrest which came to a head when Gbagbo refused to admit defeat in the 2010 presidential election.

I.Coast starts exhuming victims of post-election conflict

April 4, 2013 15:15
Ivory Coast on Thursday launched a massive operation to exhume the bodies of those killed during a violent post-election conflict which left some 3,000 dead by the time it ended in 2011. "To this day, two years after this tragedy, a number of bodies and human remains still lie in public places, burial plots, places of worship, to name a few," Justice Minister Gnenema Coulibaly said during a ceremony. "The security situation at the time did not allow... for decent burials of the deceased," he said.
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