Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo named a transitional prime minister Saturday, taking the first step toward implementing a peace plan aimed at ending a 4-month-old civil war.

Three days into his return, the First Ivorian Civil War began. He spent the next seven years shooting the documentary “Chronicles of War in the Ivory Coast.” ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Former first lady Simone Gbagbo was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years’ jail by an Ivory Coast court for her part in post-election violence that killed more than 3,000 people ...