Ivory Coast's Ex-First Lady, Along With Hundreds Of Others, Granted Amnesty
Simone Gbagbo helped her husband's bloody campaign to stay in office after he lost the 2010 election. Now, the man who defeated him is pardoning her — and some 800 others involved in that civil war.
On Monday, one day before Ivory Coast celebrated 58 years of independence, the West African country's leader announced that he is granting liberty of another kind to hundreds of Ivorians. In a nationally televised address President Alassane Ouattara declared amnesty for some 800 people involved in the bloodshed that followed the 2010 election — including one of the country's most
