Ivory Coast to hand over Ble Goude to ICC

Published March 20, 2014 3:10pm ET



ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast’s government plans to hand over a former youth leader who is wanted on charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, the justice minister said Thursday.

Charles Ble Goude, who also had been charged in Ivory Coast, has denied playing any role in the postelection violence that left at least 3,000 people dead in 2010-2011.

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