Charles Ble Goude, Gbagbo loyalist, goes to Ivory Coast
Date
11/27/2022 10:39:14 AM
(MENAFN) Charles Ble Goude, a prominent actor in the post-election violence that ravaged Ivory Coast 11 years ago, returned to the nation for the first time in more than eight years on Saturday, according to the AFP news agency.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) acquitted a former right-hand man of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo and his former supervisor of crimes against humanity last year.
Ble Goude's comeback is the latest in a string of high-profile Political personalities who have clashed with the present administration since the war. President Alassane Ouattara, who won the 2010 election that Gbagbo refused to accept, pardoned him in August. The ex-president returned to Ivory Coast in June as part of a reconciliation push ahead of the 2025 elections.
In July, the president also met with Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bedie, another political opponent who served as president from 1993 until his ouster in a 1999 coup.
Gbagbo, 77, was Ivory Coast's president for ten stormy years. He was a fiery left-wing orator from a modest upbringing who painted himself as a defender of the people.
He lost the election to Ouattara in October 2010, but he refused to acknowledge the outcome. Their conflict divided the country along north-south lines, sparking violence that killed an estimated 3,000 people in 2011.
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