内容摘要：The incidents were believed to have taken place between April 2024 and January 2025.

The incidents were believed to have taken place between April 2024 and January 2025.

This was rejected by Ivory Coast's Information Minister Amadou Coulibaly."The court rules that at the time he was registered on that [electoral] list, he was not Ivorian," he told the BBC's Newsday programme on Friday.

"This is clear proof that this gentleman does not know Ivory Coast... We have a problem with morality with Mr Thiam - he knew he was wrong," he added.Thiam told the BBC: "What's happened is that they dug out a 1961 law that has never been applied to anybody. But in theory, it says that if you take another nationality, you lose your Ivorian citizenship.""Most of the Ivorian football team is in the same case," he said, in reference to the

"So if we apply the law the way [that] they just applied it to me, we have to give the cup back to Nigeria - because half of the team was not Ivorian."Although Thiam relinquished his French nationality in March to run in the election, the court found that his candidacy was invalid, given that he was not Ivorian when he first registered on the electoral roll.

The 1961 nationality code states that: "An Ivorian national of full age who voluntarily acquires or states that he possesses a foreign nationality shall lose Ivorian nationality."

Thiam is now mounting a legal challenge.In order to keep paying for his 88-year-old mother's £1,842 weekly residential care costs, he said he would "have to sell her house, everything, basically" by next year.

Mr Belton, 63, whose mother has Alzheimer's, said he wanted the next government to set a date for the introduction of the cap "on day one", as well as "clarity" what it will cover and when it will be calculated from.The costs for his mother's care are currently being drawn from her savings, but Mr Belton said he would have to sell her two-bedroom Worthing bungalow - worth around £375,000 - next year in order to keep up payments.

He says he believes a fair system is needed.Currently, people with savings worth more than £23,250 or who own their own property are not entitled to help with the cost of care.