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After 20 years in opposition, he was finally elected president in 2000, but civil war broke out just two years later. Mr Gbagbo's supporters were accused of carrying out xenophobic attacks in areas they controlled - against those from the mainly Muslim north, immigrants from neighbouring African countries, and Westerners.


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