Wars, politics & history

2010–2011 Ivorian crisis

from 28 November 2010 to 11 April 2011

Political crisis in Ivory Coast, when the electoral council declared that the opposition had won the 2010 elections, but the incumbent president L. Gbagbo claimed that he had won; after a civil war with French backing, Gbagbo was eventually captured. It began on 28 November 2010 and lasted until 11 April 2011 (about 4 months). The setting was Ivory Coast. Those involved included Laurent Gbagbo, Alassane Ouattara and Guillaume Kigbafori Soro.

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