Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo captured by French special forces, rival claims
French special forces have captured Ivory Coast dictator Laurent Gbagbo and handed him over to rebel forces following a fierce battle today, a spokeswoman for presidential rival Alassane Ouattara has claimed.
Kiongozi wa Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo ametiwa kizuizini mjini Abidjan na kuwekwa chini ya ulinzi wa polisi wa Umoja wa Mataifa.
Alikamatwa wakati majeshi ya kiongozi anayetambulika kimataifa kuwa Rais wa nchi hiyo Alassane Ouattara na vifaru vya Ufaransa kuingia kwenye makazi yake.
Bw Gbagbo alikuwa akikataa kukabidhi madaraka, akisema alishinda uchaguzi wa Rais wa mwezi Novemba.
HISTORIA YA GBAGBO
Laurent Gbagbo alikuwa Rais wa Ivory Coast kwa muongo mmoja. Aliingia madarakani baada ya kufanyika kwa uchaguzi wenye utata ambapo aliponea chupuchupu njama za kumpindua na vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe nchini humo..............
born 31 May 1945) is an Ivorian politician. He served as the fourth President of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his 11 April 2011 arrest by forces loyal to opposition candidate and President-elect Alassane Ouattara.[3]
A history teacher by profession, Gbagbo was one of the primary opponents of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. He founded the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) in 1982 and unsuccessfully ran for President against Houphouët-Boigny at the start of multi-party politics in 1990. When Robert Guéï, heading a military junta, barred other leading politicians from running against him in the October 2000 presidential election, Gbagbo claimed victory after the election and his supporters took to the streets, toppling Guéï; Gbagbo was installed as President.
Following the 2010 presidential election, Gbagbo refused to stand down and annulled results from nine of the country's regions. Alassane Ouattara won the vote and was recognized the winner, by election observers, the international community, the African Union (UA), and the Economic Community of West African States of which Côte d'Ivoire is currently a suspended member.
Gbagbo was born in the village of Mama, near Gagnoa. He became a history professor and an opponent of the regime of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. He was imprisoned from 31 March 1971 to January 1973. In 1979, he obtained his doctorate at Paris Diderot University (French: Université Paris Diderot, also known as Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot). In 1980, he became Director of the Institute of History, Art, and African Archeology at the University of Abidjan. He participated in a 1982 teachers' strike as a member of the National Trade Union of Research and Higher Education, and at this time he formed what would become the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI). Gbagbo went into exile in France in the same year. He returned to Côte d'Ivoire on 13 September 1988 and at the FPI's constitutive congress, held on 19–20 November 1988, he was elected as the party's Secretary-General.
Gbagbo said in July 2008 that he had received crucial support from Blaise Compaoré, currently the President of Burkina Faso, while he was part of the underground opposition to Houphouët-Boigny.
Following the introduction of multiparty politics in 1990, Gbagbo was the only candidate to stand against Houphouët-Boigny in the October 1990 presidential election, receiving 18.3% of the vote against Houphouët-Boigny. In the November 1990 parliamentary election, Gbagbo won a seat in the National Assembly, along with eight other members of the FPI; Gbagbo was elected to a seat from Ouragahio District in Gagnoa Department and was President of the FPI Parliamentary Group from 1990 to 1995. In 1992 he was sentenced to two years in prison, charged with inciting violence, but was released later in the year. The FPI boycotted the 1995 presidential election. In 1996, Gbagbo was re-elected to his seat in the National Assembly from Ouragahio, following a delay in the holding of the election there, and in the same year he was elected as President of the FPI.
At the FPI's 3rd Ordinary Congress on 9–11 July 1999, Gbagbo was chosen as the FPI's candidate for the October 2000 presidential election. That election took place after a December 1999 coup in which Robert Guéï took power. Guéï refused to allow Alassane Ouattara or Bedie to run, leaving Gbagbo as the only significant opposition candidate. Guéï claimed victory in the election, held on 22 October 2000, but Gbagbo toppled Guéï, who fled the capital. Gbagbo installed himself as President on 26 October. Gbagbo is roundly accused by Ivoirians and the international community, with his wife Simone, of the numerous mass killings and targeted assassinations of his opponents during the period of time leading up to and just after his taking power.
In 2010, Ivory Coast had a presidential election that saw Gbagbo face off with Alassane Ouattara. Gbagbo, whose mandate had expired in 2005, had delayed the election several times.
On 28 November 2010, the second round of the presidential election was held. Four days later the Ivory Coast Election Commission (CEI) declared Alassane Ouattara the winner with 54.1% of the vote. Gbagbo's party complained of fraud and ordered that votes from nine regions be anulled, but the claims were disputed by the Ivoirian Electoral Commission and international election observers. The Constitutional Council, headed by a staunch supporter of Gbagbo, nullified the CEI's declaration based on alleged voting fraud, and excluded votes from nine northern areas. The Constitutional Council concluded that without these votes Gbagbo won with 51% of the remaining vote. The constitutional restriction on Presidents serving more than ten years was not addressed. With a significant portion of the country's vote nullified, especially in areas where Ouattara polled well, tensions mounted in the country. Gbagbo ordered the army to close the borders and foreign news organizations were banned from broadcasting from within the country. United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the government to "act responsibly and peacefully.
In furthering his aims to divide his country from the international community and to create further ethnic tensions, Gbagbo declared that "I will continue to work with all the countries of the world, but I will never give up our sovereignty." Gbagbo committed many atrocities against regime opponents. Sporadic violence and gunfire were reported in various parts of the country, including Abidjan. Gbagbo is mainly supported by the largely Christian south; his opponents are mostly concentrated in the Muslim north.
Ouattara also took a parallel oath of office, based on an earlier pronouncement by the CEI that he won the election. The international community, including the African Union, recognized Ouattara as the duly elected president and called for Gbagbo to respect the will of the people. ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, also recognized Ouattara and demanded Gbagbo cede power. Gbagbo responded by launching ethnic attacks on northerners living in Abidjan with his army made up partly of Liberian mercenaries, and rumours (unconfirmed because of restrictions on the movement of peacekeeping forces) of pro-Gbagbo death squads and mass graves have been reported to representatives of the UN. When Nigeria demanded Gbagbo step down and the EU began imposing sanctions and freezing assets, Gbagbo demanded foreign troops (by which he meant UN and French troops) leave the country. Leaders of the Forces Nouvelles (former rebels) asserted that Gbagbo was not the Head of State and could not make such a request and also asserted that the demand was a part of a plan to commit genocide on ethnicities from the north of the country, as stated by Gbagbo's Minister of Youth and Employment.
On 6 April 2011, forces loyal to Ouattara moved to seize Gbagbo at his residence in Abidjan after failed negotiations to end the presidential succession crisis. According to Ouattara, his forces established a security perimeter at the residence, where Gbagbo has sought refuge in a subterranean level, and are waiting for him to run out of food and water. The UN has insisted that he be arrested, judged and tried for crimes against humanity during his term and since the election of Ouattara.
On 10 April 2011, UN and French helicopters fired on heavy weapons located in Gbabgo's residency in order to prevent attacks on civilians or UN personnel. reported that Gbagbo was arrested by Ouattara forces in the afternoon of 11 April 2011 in an operation where Ouattara forces stormed Gbagbo's residence, with the support of French forces. Gbagbo is held in the Golf Hotel by Ouattara's forces, but the UN police had accepted his request of their protection.
Initial reports indicated that French special forces had made the arrest, based on declarations by a Gbagbo aide, but it was denied by the French ambassador in Ivory Coast, a French military spokesman later asserted that French forces didn't enter Gbagbo's residency. After briefing the United Nations Security Council on the situation, Alain Le Roy, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, confirmed to reporters that Ouattara forces made the arrest.[
Alikamatwa wakati majeshi ya kiongozi anayetambulika kimataifa kuwa Rais wa nchi hiyo Alassane Ouattara na vifaru vya Ufaransa kuingia kwenye makazi yake.
Bw Gbagbo alikuwa akikataa kukabidhi madaraka, akisema alishinda uchaguzi wa Rais wa mwezi Novemba.
HISTORIA YA GBAGBO
Laurent Gbagbo alikuwa Rais wa Ivory Coast kwa muongo mmoja. Aliingia madarakani baada ya kufanyika kwa uchaguzi wenye utata ambapo aliponea chupuchupu njama za kumpindua na vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe nchini humo..............
born 31 May 1945) is an Ivorian politician. He served as the fourth President of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his 11 April 2011 arrest by forces loyal to opposition candidate and President-elect Alassane Ouattara.[3]
A history teacher by profession, Gbagbo was one of the primary opponents of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. He founded the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) in 1982 and unsuccessfully ran for President against Houphouët-Boigny at the start of multi-party politics in 1990. When Robert Guéï, heading a military junta, barred other leading politicians from running against him in the October 2000 presidential election, Gbagbo claimed victory after the election and his supporters took to the streets, toppling Guéï; Gbagbo was installed as President.
Following the 2010 presidential election, Gbagbo refused to stand down and annulled results from nine of the country's regions. Alassane Ouattara won the vote and was recognized the winner, by election observers, the international community, the African Union (UA), and the Economic Community of West African States of which Côte d'Ivoire is currently a suspended member.
Gbagbo was born in the village of Mama, near Gagnoa. He became a history professor and an opponent of the regime of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. He was imprisoned from 31 March 1971 to January 1973. In 1979, he obtained his doctorate at Paris Diderot University (French: Université Paris Diderot, also known as Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot). In 1980, he became Director of the Institute of History, Art, and African Archeology at the University of Abidjan. He participated in a 1982 teachers' strike as a member of the National Trade Union of Research and Higher Education, and at this time he formed what would become the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI). Gbagbo went into exile in France in the same year. He returned to Côte d'Ivoire on 13 September 1988 and at the FPI's constitutive congress, held on 19–20 November 1988, he was elected as the party's Secretary-General.
Gbagbo said in July 2008 that he had received crucial support from Blaise Compaoré, currently the President of Burkina Faso, while he was part of the underground opposition to Houphouët-Boigny.
Following the introduction of multiparty politics in 1990, Gbagbo was the only candidate to stand against Houphouët-Boigny in the October 1990 presidential election, receiving 18.3% of the vote against Houphouët-Boigny. In the November 1990 parliamentary election, Gbagbo won a seat in the National Assembly, along with eight other members of the FPI; Gbagbo was elected to a seat from Ouragahio District in Gagnoa Department and was President of the FPI Parliamentary Group from 1990 to 1995. In 1992 he was sentenced to two years in prison, charged with inciting violence, but was released later in the year. The FPI boycotted the 1995 presidential election. In 1996, Gbagbo was re-elected to his seat in the National Assembly from Ouragahio, following a delay in the holding of the election there, and in the same year he was elected as President of the FPI.
At the FPI's 3rd Ordinary Congress on 9–11 July 1999, Gbagbo was chosen as the FPI's candidate for the October 2000 presidential election. That election took place after a December 1999 coup in which Robert Guéï took power. Guéï refused to allow Alassane Ouattara or Bedie to run, leaving Gbagbo as the only significant opposition candidate. Guéï claimed victory in the election, held on 22 October 2000, but Gbagbo toppled Guéï, who fled the capital. Gbagbo installed himself as President on 26 October. Gbagbo is roundly accused by Ivoirians and the international community, with his wife Simone, of the numerous mass killings and targeted assassinations of his opponents during the period of time leading up to and just after his taking power.
In 2010, Ivory Coast had a presidential election that saw Gbagbo face off with Alassane Ouattara. Gbagbo, whose mandate had expired in 2005, had delayed the election several times.
On 28 November 2010, the second round of the presidential election was held. Four days later the Ivory Coast Election Commission (CEI) declared Alassane Ouattara the winner with 54.1% of the vote. Gbagbo's party complained of fraud and ordered that votes from nine regions be anulled, but the claims were disputed by the Ivoirian Electoral Commission and international election observers. The Constitutional Council, headed by a staunch supporter of Gbagbo, nullified the CEI's declaration based on alleged voting fraud, and excluded votes from nine northern areas. The Constitutional Council concluded that without these votes Gbagbo won with 51% of the remaining vote. The constitutional restriction on Presidents serving more than ten years was not addressed. With a significant portion of the country's vote nullified, especially in areas where Ouattara polled well, tensions mounted in the country. Gbagbo ordered the army to close the borders and foreign news organizations were banned from broadcasting from within the country. United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the government to "act responsibly and peacefully.
In furthering his aims to divide his country from the international community and to create further ethnic tensions, Gbagbo declared that "I will continue to work with all the countries of the world, but I will never give up our sovereignty." Gbagbo committed many atrocities against regime opponents. Sporadic violence and gunfire were reported in various parts of the country, including Abidjan. Gbagbo is mainly supported by the largely Christian south; his opponents are mostly concentrated in the Muslim north.
Ouattara also took a parallel oath of office, based on an earlier pronouncement by the CEI that he won the election. The international community, including the African Union, recognized Ouattara as the duly elected president and called for Gbagbo to respect the will of the people. ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, also recognized Ouattara and demanded Gbagbo cede power. Gbagbo responded by launching ethnic attacks on northerners living in Abidjan with his army made up partly of Liberian mercenaries, and rumours (unconfirmed because of restrictions on the movement of peacekeeping forces) of pro-Gbagbo death squads and mass graves have been reported to representatives of the UN. When Nigeria demanded Gbagbo step down and the EU began imposing sanctions and freezing assets, Gbagbo demanded foreign troops (by which he meant UN and French troops) leave the country. Leaders of the Forces Nouvelles (former rebels) asserted that Gbagbo was not the Head of State and could not make such a request and also asserted that the demand was a part of a plan to commit genocide on ethnicities from the north of the country, as stated by Gbagbo's Minister of Youth and Employment.
On 6 April 2011, forces loyal to Ouattara moved to seize Gbagbo at his residence in Abidjan after failed negotiations to end the presidential succession crisis. According to Ouattara, his forces established a security perimeter at the residence, where Gbagbo has sought refuge in a subterranean level, and are waiting for him to run out of food and water. The UN has insisted that he be arrested, judged and tried for crimes against humanity during his term and since the election of Ouattara.
On 10 April 2011, UN and French helicopters fired on heavy weapons located in Gbabgo's residency in order to prevent attacks on civilians or UN personnel. reported that Gbagbo was arrested by Ouattara forces in the afternoon of 11 April 2011 in an operation where Ouattara forces stormed Gbagbo's residence, with the support of French forces. Gbagbo is held in the Golf Hotel by Ouattara's forces, but the UN police had accepted his request of their protection.
Initial reports indicated that French special forces had made the arrest, based on declarations by a Gbagbo aide, but it was denied by the French ambassador in Ivory Coast, a French military spokesman later asserted that French forces didn't enter Gbagbo's residency. After briefing the United Nations Security Council on the situation, Alain Le Roy, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, confirmed to reporters that Ouattara forces made the arrest.[
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