Friday, August 8, 2014

Ivory Coast leader pardons third of prisoners

ABIDJAN, August 8- Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has pardoned nearly a third of the west African country’s prison population, the government announced Friday. Each year the head of state orders the release of a number of convicted criminals on August 7, when the country marks its independence from France in 1960. A cabinet statement […]

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