GAGNOA, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - The head of the political party of Ivory Coast's jailed ex-president, Laurent Gbagbo, sought to win over Gbagbo's grassroots supporters on Saturday and overcome an internal rift as he kicked off his campaign for the Oct. 25 election.
Pascal Affi N'Guessan chose Gagnoa, a city in the heart of the cocoa belt and a bastion of support for Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), to launch his bid to unseat President Alassane Ouattara.
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