{UAH} After Supporting Kenya Withdraw From ICC, M7 Agrees to Host Gbabo If ICC Pays Him !

WEST AFRICA NEWSLETTER N°637 - 14/06/2012
Gbagbo sets sights on Uganda
Laurent Gbagbo may take a break from the Hague if high-level behind-the-scenes negotiations with prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo lead to his release on bail, as West Africa Newsletter's sources indicate may happen. The Ivorian authorities, several other African governments and senior UN officials have been taking part in the discussions. Ivory Coast's former leader, who has been held in the Hague since November, had been due to make his next appearance before the International Criminal Court on June 18 for a hearing to confirm his trial for crimes against humanity, but the date of the hearing has been pushed back. If Gbagbo were to be released on bail after that court appearance, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is understood to have agreed to host him pending the actual trial. In August 2009, the ICC briefly granted bail to Congo's former vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba if a host country came forward, but an appeals judge ruled there was a risk he would flee and revoked the bail. In the meantime, Gbagbo's lawyer Emmanuel Altit has also been pursuing efforts to get his client off on a technicality. On May 24, Altit submitted a 79-page file with 52 annexes and 37 confidential memos to the ICC's three-member panel of judges - chairman Silvia Fernendez de Gurmendi, Hans-Peter Kaul and Christine Van den Wyngaert - arguing that there were numerous procedural irregularities when Gbagbo was transferred to the Hague on November 29 last year.
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