Can Ivory Coast’s “Street General” Get a Fair Trial?
Charles Ble Goude, the leader of an Ivory Coast youth militia who was arrested last month after nearly two years on the run, does not know where Ivorian authorities are keeping him….
Robbie Corey-Boulet is an associate editor at World Politics Review. He previously worked as a freelance journalist in West Africa, focusing primarily on African politics and LGBT life in the region. His stories have been published by The Guardian, Al Jazeera America, World Policy Journal and Guernica, among other outlets, and he worked for AP's West and Central Africa bureau for five years. In 2016 he completed a two-year fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs that involved investigating LGBT activism and homophobia in Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon and Burkina Faso. Follow him on Twitter @rcoreyb. Last updated July 2017
Charles Ble Goude, the leader of an Ivory Coast youth militia who was arrested last month after nearly two years on the run, does not know where Ivorian authorities are keeping him….
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the creation of Ivory Coast’s Commission for Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation, but the results have been underwhelming…
In 2011, post-election violence in Ivory Coast left some 3,000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. But the ICC has prosecuted only one side of the bloodshed, giving the victors de facto immunity.
In western Ivory Coast, a flashpoint of the 2010 post-election crisis, four border raids were reported in the past 10 months.
A year after post-election violence erupted in Ivory Coast, evidence of extrajudicial killings at the hands of troops loyal to President Ouattara.