{"id":3021,"date":"2019-02-08T15:20:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2019-02-08T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:20:27","slug":"belgium-agrees-to-take-in-former-ivory-coast-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/02\/08\/belgium-agrees-to-take-in-former-ivory-coast-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium agrees to take in former Ivory Coast president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Belgium has agreed to take in the former Ivory Coast president&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/laurent-gbagbo\">Laurent Gbagbo<\/a>&nbsp;following his acquittal at the international criminal court in The Hague, a foreign ministry spokesman has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karl Lagatie confirmed the agreement on Saturday, and added that he did not know if the ex-president was already in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/belgium\">Belgium<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat is also part of the framework of our support for international criminal jurisdictions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ICC&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2019\/feb\/02\/laurent-gbagbo-former-ivory-coast-president-freed-by-war-crimes-court\">freed Gbagbo on Friday<\/a>&nbsp;after his shock acquittal last month on charges of crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He and his aide, Charles Bl\u00e9 Goud\u00e9, were cleared on 15 January over the wave of violence after disputed elections in the west African nation in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he was initially kept in custody after prosecutors argued that if released he might not return for a retrial if January\u2019s acquittal was overturned on appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was released on condition that he stay in the host state until the court decides whether to let an appeal trial go ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gbagbo was the first former head of state ever to stand trial at the ICC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: The Guardian <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium has agreed to take in the former Ivory Coast president&nbsp;Laurent Gbagbo&nbsp;following his acquittal at the international criminal court in The Hague, a foreign ministry spokesman has said. Karl Lagatie confirmed the agreement on Saturday, and added that he did not know if the ex-president was already in&nbsp;Belgium. \u201cThat is also part of the framework of our support for international&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/02\/08\/belgium-agrees-to-take-in-former-ivory-coast-president\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3022,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}