Laurent Gbagbo

President of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 to 2011

Koudou Laurent Gbagbo (born 31 May 1945) is an Ivorian politician who served as the president of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. He was the first president in the history of the country that was a centre-left politician. A historian, Gbagbo was imprisoned in the early 1970s and again in the early 1990s, and he lived in exile in France during much of the 1980s as a result of his union activism.

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