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Ivory Coast's former youth minister Charles Ble Goude is cheered by supporters upon his return to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Saturday Nov. 26, 2022, after more than a decade in exile. Ble Goude was acquitted of charges linked to the violence that erupted after the disputed 2010 election when then President Laurent Gbagbo refused to concede. ( AP Photo/ Diomande Bleblonde)

Ble Goude returns to Ivory Coast after 11 years in exile

Ivory Coast’s former youth minister Charles Ble Goude has returned to his home country after more than a decade in exile.
 
FILE - Ivory Coast politician and businessman Charles Ble Goude waves to supporters attending the appeals hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 6, 2020. International Criminal Court judges have on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022 rejected a senior Ivory Coast politician’s claim for compensation after he was acquitted of involvement in deadly violence that broke out after elections in 2010. Former Youth Minister Charles Ble Goude was cleared in 2019, along with former president Laurent Gbagbo, of responsibility for crimes including murder, rape and persecution following the disputed elections. (Jerry Lampen/Pool photo via AP, file)

ICC rejects compensation for freed Ivory Coast politician

 
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo addresses delegates of his newly formed political party, the African People's Party-Ivory Coast, shortened to its French acronym, PPA-CI, in Abidjan Sunday Oct. 17, 2021. The creation of Gbagbo's political new party comes amid lingering questions about his future political aspirations. He served as president from 2000 until his arrest in 2011 after he refused to concede defeat to Alassane Ouattara. (AP Photo/Diomande Ble Blonde)

Ivory Coast’s ex-leader Gbagbo vows return to political life

 
FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, Simone Gbagbo, wife of Laurent Gbagbo, smiles during a pro-Gbagbo rally at the Palace of Culture in the Treichville neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. In a written ruling issued confidentially on July 19, 2021 and made public this week, the International Criminal Court has withdrawn its arrest warrant for the wife of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo following her husband's acquittal on charges of involvement in deadly violence that erupted following his country's disputed 2010 presidential election. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

International court drops Simone Gbagbo arrest warrant

 
Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo, center left, attends a Mass at the Saint Paul's cathedral in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, June 20, 2021. Gbagbo, who has returned to the country after nearly a decade, was extradited to the International Criminal Court at The Hague in 2011 and spent eight years awaiting trial on war crimes charges. A judge acquitted him in 2019, saying prosecutors had failed to prove their case. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ivory Coast’s former president Gbagbo attends Mass in public

 

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Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo arrives at the international airport, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Thursday, June 17, 2021. After nearly a decade, Gbagbo returns to his country following his acquittal on war crimes charges was upheld at the International Criminal Court earlier this year. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ex-President Gbagbo back in Ivory Coast after acquittal

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FILE - In this April 11, 2011 file photo, former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, center, and his wife Simone, are seen in the custody of republican forces loyal to election winner Alassane Ouattara, at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Gbagbo is scheduled to return home to Ivory Coast Thursday June 17, 2021 for the first time in nearly a decade. The move comes after his acquittal on war crimes charges was upheld at the International Criminal Court earlier this year. (AP Photo/Aristide Bodegla, File)

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Supporters of Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and former youth minister Charles Ble Goude, celebrate their acquittal outside the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, ...

ICC judges uphold acquittal of former Ivory Coast president

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