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ABIDJAN, Dec 23 (Reuters) – Ivory Coast has issued an arrest warrant for Guillaume Soro, a former insurgent chief and candidate in subsequent 12 months’s presidential election, 4 authorities sources mentioned on Monday, simply earlier than he was attributable to return house after greater than six months abroad.
Soro diverted his Ivory Coast-bound personal flight from Paris to neighbouring Ghana “for safety causes”, his adviser, Alain Lobognon, informed Reuters. Lobognon mentioned he was not conscious of an arrest warrant.
The sources offered no particulars concerning the particular allegations in opposition to Soro. A police spokesman mentioned he didn’t know concerning the warrant.
Soro, 47, led the rebels who tried and didn’t oust then-president Laurent Gbagbo in 2002, earlier than putting in Alassane Ouattara within the presidency throughout a short civil struggle after a disputed 2010 election.
Soro has since fallen out with Ouattara, who’s extensively anticipated to again his prime minister, Amadou Gon…