Former Ivory Coast PM gets life sentence for plotting coup
24 June 2021 |
10:05 am
An Ivory Coast court on Wednesday sentenced former prime minister and rebel leader Guillaume Soro in absentia to life in prison on charges of plotting a coup against his former ally President Alassane Ouattara.
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