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  • The right-hand man of Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo indicated Sunday that he would be returning home this month along with the former president of the West African nation. Charles Ble Goude, the 48-year-old former head of the Young Ivorian Patriots, fled the country in the wake of a deadly political crisis that forced Gbagbo from power after losing elections 10 years ago. Both were acquitted in January 2019 of charges of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and are conditionally free pending a possible appeal. "President Gbagbo... has taken on the responsibility of opening the way for our return to the mother country," Ble Goude said in a statement, adding that Gbagbo's return could "greatly contribute to the calming of the degraded socio-political situation." Gbagbo, 75, who is in Brussels pending the outcome of proceedings against him at the ICC, announced through his lawyer on Friday that he had obtained both a regular and a diplomatic passport and hoped to return home this month. Gbagbo's long-rumoured return has sparked speculation about its impact on the fraught political climate in Ivory Coast, where he still has many supporters. The conflict sparked by Gbagbo's refusal to concede defeat in a 2010 presidential election to Alassane Ouattara -- who won a third term in office in October -- left around 3,000 people dead. Ble Goude was among the most controversial members of Gbagbo's circle, nicknamed the "general of the streets" for his ability to whip up support for the ex-president. Critics and international aid groups consider him to be among those who contributed most to the post-election violence. He was arrested in 2013 in Ghana and transferred the following year to The Hague to be tried alongside Gbagbo. Ouattara, 78, was re-elected on October 31 for a third mandate considered unconstitutional by the opposition, which boycotted the polls and called for civil disobedience. Pre- and post-election violence has claimed at least 85 lives since August, according to an official toll. Despite their past enmity, Ouattara has several times in recent months said he favoured Gbagbo's return, apparently seeing in it a potential for easing tensions in the former French colony. ck/de/gd/pma
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  • Gbagbo's top aide says set to return to ICoast with ex-president
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