Five key reasons Ivory Coast's election led to civil war

It's personal

When Ouattara was prime minister in the Houphouët-Boigny government from 1990-93, Gbagbo was a university lecturer and was jailed repeatedly for his “socialist” teachings. Some say that Gbagbo blames Ouattara for his arrests and torture.

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