...the current president-for-life of Ivory Coast. He actually beat his predecessor in an election before having to eject him from the presidential palazzo....
, whose election in 2010 touched off a wave of violence that left 3,000 dead.
Ouattara did not declare definitively that he would seek a second term. But on Friday he told supporters gathered in central Ivory Coast's Bouake: "I will be here campaigning in September 2015."
Five months of deadly unrest followed the last election as strongman Laurent Gbagbo
... Former President-for-Life of Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2011. Laurent lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and he refused to vacate the presidential palace. French troops assisted the Oattara forces in extricating him from his Fuhrerbunker...
refused to concede defeat. It ended only when the former president was captured in April 2011.
Gbagbo is now in the custody of the
International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
, where he is accused of criminal masterminding a campaign of violence during the standoff in the west African country.