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The future ex-wife of Laurent Gbagbo speaks in an open letter and a video published on social networks. A letter that has been picked up and commented on by many Ivorian media, including the daily Our way, near the FPI, the former presidential party. Here is what this paper says: “After the scenes that were considered humiliating towards him at the airport during the arrival of her future ex-husband, June 17, and the media…

For the first time since her husband's return to Côte d'Ivoire on June 17, the former lady speaks in a video posted on her social networks. Simone Gbagbo welcomes this return and asks for further support for reconciliation. Without ever referring to the divorce proceedings initiated by the former president. It's a video of just…

Laurent Gbagbo is filing for divorce. According to a press release signed by one of his lawyers, the former Ivorian president arrested a judge in a marriage case on Monday, June 21, 2021. The consequence, according to him, "of the repeated refusal for several years by Dame Simone Ehivet to agree to a friendly separation". Laurent and Simone Gbagbo married in 1989. She co-founded the Front populaire…