FILE PHOTO: Former Ivory Coast Youth Minister Charles Ble Goude arrives for the start of his trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, January 28, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Dejong/Pool/File Photo
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Charles Ble Goude, an ally of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, has been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison by a court in Abidjan for his role in the civil war that followed the 2010 presidential election, his lawyers said.
Ble Goude headed the notorious Young Patriots street militia during Gbagbo's presidency.
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