Ivory Coast bars Laurent Gbagbo and key opposition leader from presidential race

Ivory Coast’s presidential race took a dramatic turn on Monday, as two major opposition figures were officially barred from next month’s election.

The Constitutional Council announced that former president Laurent Gbagbo and former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam are ineligible to run in the October 25th vote. The council cited their removal from the electoral roll as the reason for their exclusion.

Thiam, leader of the PDCI Ivory…