Former President of Côte d'Ivoire for the ICC

- The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague begins Thursday in the trial of the septuagenarian ex-president Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast. The former head of state, which in November 2011 was transferred to the ICC, is on trial for crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and persecution during the civil war after the 2010 elections.

The violence began when Gbagbo refused to abide by its election defeat. The civil war was in the period until April 2011 at least 3,000 people have lost their lives. Besides Gbagbo is also his 44-year-old co-defendant Charles Blé Goudé justified. The former minister and former youth leader was also accused of crimes against humanity, including murder and rape.

The ICC also wanted to try Gbagbo's wife, but who has been sentenced by a court in Ivory Coast to twenty years in prison.