Ivory Coast’s former first lady campaigns ahead of presidential polls

Simone Gbagbo, the former first lady of Ivory Coast, has spent the week campaigning in the southwestern part of the Ivory Coast.

She is the surprise inclusion in the list of five candidates cleared to contest the upcoming presidential election.

Incumbent President Alassane Ouattara is widely expected to secure a fourth term in the 25 October vote. But Gbagbo, whose ex-husband Laurent lost to Ouattara in the 2010 poll, believes…