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Members of a special army unit controlled by Laurent Gbagbo, Ivory Coast’s former president,\u00a0are the leading suspects in the kidnapping of four foreigners earlier this month in Abidjan, the country’s justice minister has said.<\/p>\n

“An investigation has been launched over the kidnapping,” Jeannot Kouadio Ahoussou said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“There are several leads, the most serious being elements of the Republican Guards,” he said, referring to the elite army squad.<\/p>\n

The four foreigners\u00a0– two French, a Beninese and a Malaysian – were seized from Abidjan’s Novotel Hotel on April 4 by armed men.<\/p>\n

They were taken at the height of the political crisis sparked by Gbagbo’s refusal to step down\u00a0following the November 28 elections against rival Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner.<\/p>\n

House arrest<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gbagbo was eventually arrested by forces loyal to Ouattara on April 11 and is now under house arrest in the northern Korhogo town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/strong><\/span> Al Jazeera reports on Ivorians too afraid to go home,\u00a0despite the end of the conflict<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Authorities have said preliminary investigations have been launched against Gbagbo for crimes by his government.<\/p>\n

After months of failed diplomacy, pro-Ouattara former rebels from the north launched an offensive in late March, seizing swathes of territory before becoming bogged down in urban combat.<\/p>\n

UN and French forces intervened to destroy Gbagbo’s heavy weapons in an operation that provided Ouattara forces the breakthrough they needed, ending a crisis that\u00a0left well over 1,500 people dead and forced one million from their homes.<\/p>\n

Thousands of people\u00a0who fled their homes during the post-election\u00a0violence\u00a0now say they too afraid to return home.<\/p>\n

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