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Gbagbo files for divorce, to end 30-year marriage

Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo has filed for divorce on Monday from his wife of three decades, days after his highly anticipated return to the country. Gbagbo’s lawyer Claude Mentenon said in a statement that after years of “rejected requests for Simone Ehivet to consent to an amicable separation”, the ex-president had asked an Abidjan court for a divorce.…