Ivory Coast: ineligible, Laurent Gbagbo agrees to be a candidate for the 2025 presidential election. The former president of Côte d'Ivoire (2000-2011) is however ineligible.

Acquitted by international justice of crimes against humanity committed during the bloody post-electoral crisis of 2010-2011. Convicted in 2018 in his country to 20 years in prison for the “robbery” of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) in 2011.