Laurent Gbagbo
Koudou Laurent Gbagbo is an Ivorian politician who was the President of CĂ´te d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. A historian, Gbagbo was imprisoned in the early 1970s and again in the early 1990s, and he lived in exile in France during much of the 1980s as a result of his union activism.