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 ...

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 ...

Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo says he plans to be involved in politics until the day he dies ...

Laurent Gbagbo faced a litany of charges related to the violence that followed the 2010 presidential election in Ivory Coast. Pool photo by Peter Dejong ...

UPDATE: Despite earlier reports that he was negotiating an end to a brutal succession conflict, Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo defiantly insisted Tuesday that he is legitimately the ...

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.© AP Photo ...

Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo, ousted during a civil war in 2011 and acquitted of war crimes in The Hague, flew home on Thursday from a decade in exile as thousands took to the ...

Laurent Gbagbo, the former president of Ivory Coast, 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 ...

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.

Ivory Coast’s ex-President Laurent Gbagbo could again run for office next year, more than a decade after his refusal to concede election defeat sparked a civil war which left at least 3,000 ...