Former Ivorian Prime Minister Guillaume Soro has appealed a life sentence handed down last week for undermining state security, one of his attorneys said on Thursday.

Lawyer Souleymane Diallo told AFP that his team has filed an appeal against the verdict and taken the case to international jurisdictions, including the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Soro, 49, was previously right-hand man to President Alassane Ouattara, but the pair fell out in 2019 and he went into exile.

Abdullahi Hassan reports.