Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo’s ex-wife to run for president

The list of presidential hopefuls in Ivory Coast just grew bigger. The latest entrant is the ex-wife of former President Laurent Gbagbo.

Simone Ehivet won the nomination of her party, the Movement of Capable Generations (MGC) at a congress in her native town of Moossou in Iv ory Coast’s southeast.

In an acceptance speech, Ehivet listed national reconciliation through an amnesty, food sovereignty, and industrialization as her priorities….