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The Ivorian government indicated Thursday that former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro is free to return home but it is up to the justice to decide over the destiny of former rebel leader, condemned to life imprisonment in absentia for plotting and attempting to remove the administration of President Alassan Ouattara in 2019. Soro this month […]
Sié Coulibaly, lawmaker and former leader of Pro-Soro initiative “Initiative Libérale de Côte d’Ivoire (ILCI)”, has called on Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara to allow the former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro to return to his home country like former President Laurent Gbagbo and former minister Ble Goude, to seal national reconciliation. “The centerpiece for national reconciliation […]
The Ivorian justice conditionally released during the night of Wednesday to Thursday some of the relatives of former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro detained since late December. This measure comes in a context of growing political tensions in the run-up to the presidential election of October. They are 9 out of 19 companions of Guillaume Soro […]
With 46 days to go before the presidential election in Côte d’Ivoire, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has asked Abidjan to “stay the execution” of the sentence of Guillaume Soro, and to restore him to the electoral rolls. The president of the GPS party, exiled in France for several months, saw […]
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on Wednesday ordered Côte d’Ivoire to suspend its arrest warrant for Guillaume Soro and to release 19 of his relatives who have been imprisoned for four months. The African Union institution based in Arusha, Tanzania, which had been seized in early March by Mr. Soro, former […]
Côte d’Ivoire has issued an arrest warrant for presidential candidate Guillaume Soro, a one-time rebel leader and former Prime Minister. Soro, 47, former speaker of the country’s parliament, is accused of attempting to undermine the government, embezzling public funds and laundering money worth more than €2 million. The former Prime Minister was expected in Abidjan, […]
Former Ivorian rebels’ leader Guillaume Soro has announced he will run in next year’s presidential election — the first major politician to do so. “There are some pro-Soro parties that have chosen me as their candidate,” Soro, who has also served as prime minister, said in a speech broadcast live on his Facebook page. “So […]
Côte d’Ivoire Presidency Tuesday unveiled the new cabinet said to drag the country to emergence envisaged by President Ouattara who has been vested with a new mandate. The new cabinet is made of 36 secretaries including nine women compared to 5 in Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan’s previous team. Four new women are making their […]