Why has former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo agreed to run in next year's election?
Ex Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo recently agreed to lead his party into the 2025 presidential elections. He disputed election results in 2010 that lead to a civil war.
Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is once more throwing his hat into the ring. He's agreed to run in next year's Presidential election. He disputed the election results, back in the 2010 poll and that led to an outbreak of civil war in 2011. Thousands died or were displaced. What are his chances, this time round?
Also a recent internet outage that affected West and Central Africa was caused by a break in a submarine cable system. How do cables, deep on the ocean floor, get fixed?
And we hear thoughts of Ghanaian Afrobeats star, Kuami Eugene
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