{"id":78597,"date":"2021-06-15T04:18:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T02:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/78597-ivory-coasts-laurent-gbagbo-in-dates.html"},"modified":"2021-06-15T04:18:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T02:18:02","slug":"ivory-coasts-laurent-gbagbo-in-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/78597-ivory-coasts-laurent-gbagbo-in-dates.html","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo in dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n             Key dates in the life of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, who is scheduled to return home on Thursday after being acquitted of crimes against humanity in The Hague.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - May 31, 1945: Born in the south-central Ivory Coast region of Gagnoa, to the Bete ethnic group. Educated in a Christian seminary.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - 1971: Becomes a history professor. Emerges as critic of Ivory Coast's post-independence single-party system. He is imprisoned for almost two years for \"subversive\" teaching.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - 1982: Founds the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) to fight one-party rule. Goes into exile in France.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - 1988: Returns to take part in the FPI party congress.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - 1990: Is the sole opposition candidate at presidential elections against Felix Houphouet-Boigny, the father of Ivory Coast's independence, after a multiparty system is introduced.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - October 26, 2000: Elected president.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - September 2002: Renegade soldiers try to oust Gbagbo. Rebels take over the north of the country but the government retains control of the south.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - 2005: The presidential election is postponed for the first of six times before finally being held in 2010.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - 2007: Gbagbo and northern rebel chief Guillaume Soro sign an agreement to end the crisis. Gbagbo appoints Soro as prime minister.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - April 11, 2011: Arrested in Abidjan after more than four months of crisis after he refuses to acknowledge defeat at the November 2010 election against Alassane Ouattara. More than 3,000 people die.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - November 30, 2011: Is transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - January 15, 2019: Acquitted by the ICC on charges of crimes against humanity. Freed on strict conditions in February pending a prosecution appeal. He lives in Belgium.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - September 14, 2020: Ahead of the presidential election in October, Ivory Coast's constitutional court rejects Gbagbo's candidacy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - March 31, 2021: The ICC confirms his acquittal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            - June 17, 2021: Scheduled return to Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key dates in the life of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, who is scheduled to return home on Thursday after being acquitted of crimes against humanity in The Hague. - May 31, 1945: Born in the south-central Ivory Coast region of Gagnoa, to the Bete ethnic group. Educated in a Christian seminary. - 1971: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[553],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-78597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-feed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ivory Coast&#039;s Laurent Gbagbo in dates - JusticeInfo.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/78597-ivory-coasts-laurent-gbagbo-in-dates.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ivory Coast&#039;s Laurent Gbagbo in dates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Key dates in the life of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, who is scheduled to return home on Thursday after being acquitted of crimes against humanity in The Hague. - May 31, 1945: Born in the south-central Ivory Coast region of Gagnoa, to the Bete ethnic group. 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