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Ivory Coast sentences former PM Soro to life imprisonment for plotting coup

Ivory Coast's presidential candidate, former rebel leader and prime minister Guillaume Soro. [Reuters]

An Ivory Coast court on Wednesday sentenced former prime minister and rebel leader Guillaume Soro in absentia to life in prison on charges of plotting a coup against his former ally President Alassane Ouattara.

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