The wife of former President Laurent Gbagbo is being prosecuted for alleged crimes against humanity following disputed presidential polls in 2010.On Friday, Ivory Coast ministers voted to dismiss the ICC's arrest warrant.Some 3,000 people died in violence after Mrs Gbagbo's husband refused to accept defeat in a run-off vote.He is already awaiting trial at the ICC in The Hague on four charges of crimes against humanity. Mr Gbagbo, 67, who insists he is innocent, is the first former head of state to have appeared at the ICC. The West African ex-leader was ousted in 2011 with the help of French and UN forces backing President Alassane Ouattara. He and his wife were arrested in a bunker, five months after the elections, following a military assault on their residence in the main city, Abidjan.
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