The International Criminal Court has delayed a decision on whether it will put former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo on trial for crimes against humanity.
ICC judges in The Hague Monday said there is not enough strong evidence against Gbagbo to merit a trial right now.
Gbagbo faces multiple charges stemming from his alleged role in deadly violence after he lost a disputed 2010 presidential election.
An ICC spokesman, Fadi el-Abdallah told VOA French-to-Africa that prosecutors must provide more evidence or conduct more investigations before a trial can go forward.
ICC judges gave prosecutors until November 15 to try to strengthen their case.
Gbagbo refused to cede power after losing a November 2010 run-off election to current President Alassane Ouattara.
The United Nations estimates that more than 3,000 people lost their lives in the civil war that followed. Thousands of people were displaced during the unrest.
Gbagbo is the first former head of state to be taken into the court's custody. He was arrested in April 2011 by forces loyal to Ouattara and then transferred to the ICC.
He will remain in the custody of the court as judges await a response from prosecutors.
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AGAIN AFRICA IS LISTENING TO FALSE INFORMATION GBAGBO WAS REINSTATED BY THE CONSTITUINAL CORT OF COTE d' IVOIRE AS PRESIDENT.. THE COURT FELTNTHT THE INTERNATIONAL COMUNITY DID NOT LIVE UP TO ITS ROLE IF PROVIDING AFAIR ELECTION THEY SAW MULTIPLE FGRAUDS AND THEW FACT THAT IVORY COAST IS NOW EBING RUN BYU FRANCE IS TESTIMONY AS TO WHAT THE SCARMBLE WS ALL ABOUT... WE SEE THE SAME THING IN MALI WITH THE FERTNCH BOMBARDING AND USING ISLAMNIST THREATS THE SAME ISLAMIST THEY ARM AND TRAINED... THE TAUREGS WERE THE SCAPE GOATS IN LIBYA THSI MUST BE KNOW THEY DID NOT GET ARAMS FROM FARNCE LIBYA IS AWASH WITH ARMS THE FRENCH IN PARTICULAR IS RESPONIBLE FOR MULTIPLE MURDERS GENOCIE ALONGSIDE THE UK AND AMERICA THEY DROPPED ONNNES FO ARMS IN THE SEL WHAT DI D THEY EWXPECT WHEN THEY DID THAT.. WHAT THEY DID WAS TO ENRICH THE ARMS MANUFACTURUERS WHO LIVES OF WARS AND CONFLICTS THEY LIVE TO PROVIDE TOOLS FOR DEATH.....GBAGBO IS AN ACADEMIC A SCHOLLAR PROFESSOR WHO WAS OFFERED POST IN THE US DURING THE PERIOD WHEN HE WAS OVERTHROWN BY FRANCEAND THE UNITED NATIONS... A BLACK MAN BEING REINSTATED BY CONSTITUIONAL COURTS WAS NTO ACCPETD BY WHITE WESTRERTN COLONIALIST WHO FELT THAT BLACKS HAD TO STAQY IN THIER PLACE... THIS WAS THE POSISITON FO THE WEST WHEN THEY WAGED THIS WAR OFR ATTRRITON AGAINS T THE PEOPLE .. WHEN THE WEST CALLED FOR STRIKES EVERYONE WENT TO WORK WQHEN GBAGBO CALLED FOR STRIKES THE WHOLE COUNTRY TURNMED OUT THSI ENRAGED SARCOZYAND THE WEST THYEY PROPOGATED WAR AND DISPLACED MILLIONS OF PEOPEL WHO ARE NTO IN IVORY COATS TODAY.. WHEN THEY ASKED FOR OPEN REVOLT THE PEOPLE REJECTED IT THE CIVIL SERVANTS WER FIRTMLY IN THE PANAFRICAN CAMP THE ARMY POLICE THE ENGINNERES THE ENTIRE CIVIL SERVANTY INDUSTRY WAS WITH GBAGBO... GBAGBO HAS DOEN NOTHING WRONG HE IS IN FACT THE VICTIM OF THIS WESTERN COLONIAL ASPIRATION BY THE WEST IN AFRICA... THE DOOR HAS BEEN FIRMLY CLOSED IN THIER FACE THE AU HAS STRENGHTENED ITS PSOTION IN AFRICA THE AFRICAN PEOPLE ARE MUCH MORE INFORMED THEY KNWO WHAT IS AHPPENING WORLD WIDE THEY SPEAK TO EACVH OTHER TELLING THE TRUTH UPLIFTNMG THIER ONE THE OTHER....... GBAGBO HAS SUFFRED A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE THAT MUST BE RIGHTED.. WE SEE ALL OVER AFRICA TODAY THE KNWLEDGE THAT THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS ARE EFFECTEIVE AND MUST BE OBEYED.. THE WEST INSTAED OF TAKING THIS TO A TRIBUNAL OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE THEY CHOSE WAR WHICH TODAY IS BACKFIRING IN THIER FACE.. WE SEE SYRIA WHICH WAS PART OF THIER DESIRE TO USE VIOLENCE WHEN LIBYA FELL TO WESTERN AGGRESSION... THIS FORM FO HEGMONY IS BEING UNDERMINED BY THE PEOPLE.. SYRIA TODAY IS RETURNING TO GOVERNMENT HANDS THE WESTERN INSURGENTS ARE FAILING IN THIER DESIRE TO BRING CHAOS SO THAT ZIONIST HEGMONY WILL RULE FOR DECADES WITH THIER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WHICH THREATENS THE ENTIRE REGION!!!! "AFRICANS MUST NOT GO TO SLEEP'AFRICA MUST UNITE"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!