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Cote d'Ivoire's Gbagbo Unveils New Party

With a decade of exile behind him, former president Laurent Gbagbo former president Laurent Gbagbo says he wants to "reunite the left" as he wished to use the party's congress last week as a springboard to the 2025 presidential election.

Political representatives from a dozen African countries attended the congress. Speaking to delagates in what was his first before a large audience since returning to Abidjan in June, Gbagbo said: "We will resume our journey together," vowing to remain in politics.

The 76-year-old, whose 2000-2011 rule was marked by turbulence and division in the world's biggest cocoa producer, has been highly visible since returning from exile.

Gbagbo was removed from office in April 2011 after a short civil war that claimed 3,000 lives, sparked by his refusal to accept electoral defeat by the incumbent president, Alassane Ouattara.

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Laurent Gbagbo supporters in Europe (file photo).

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