Ivory Coast Breaking: Former President Gbagbo Arrested
Monday, April 11, 2011 at 17:12
Scott Lucas in Africa, Alain Le Roy, Alassane Ouattara, EA Global, Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo

Video on State television of the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo

Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo and his wife Simone have been detained by forces loyal to Alassane Ouatttara, who won last November's president election but has faced Gbagbo's refusal to step.

United Nations peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said, "The chief of Gbagbo forces ... called us to say that he wants to surrender the weapons. I hope that is going on while I speak."

Ivory Coast: The Battle for Abidjan
Ivory Coast: An Introduction to the Conflict (Purefoy) 

Gbagbo's persistence in holding office, despite the electoral result, re-ignited internal conflict that claimed more than a thousand lives and uprooted a million people.

 

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