Former Ivory Coast president Gbagbo returns Home after Decade of Exile ousted by a Civil War

Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, ousted during a civil war in 2011 and acquitted of war crimes in The Hague, flew home on Thursday from a decade in exile as thousands took to the streets to welcome him. Gbagbo touched down in Ivory Coast’s main city of Abidjan late in the afternoon on a commercial flight from Brussels before climbing into a black SUV for the ride to his party’s headquarters.  Thousands of overjoyed supporters cheered and ran alongside his convoy as police fired teargas to control the crowds. “I am happy to return to Ivory Coast and…