Rebels Shun Ivory Coast Talks as Foreigners Flee
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Rebels from Ivory Coast shunned peace talks in South Africa as hundreds more foreigners left the former French colony on Friday after days of mob violence.
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Villagers in the rebel north tell the Army to leave, while NGOs try to stay out of politics.
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More than 10,000 Ivorians have fled to Liberia since the sharp escalation in Ivory Coast's civil war 10 days ago, the UN refugee agency warned.
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Ivory Coast on Sunday ordered a  pullback from an offensive on the rebel-held north after France  destroyed its airpower in a retaliatory strike which sparked  mob attacks on French citizens and property.
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Ivory Coast forces will immediately pull back from front lines, the presidential spokesman said Sunday, after a day of clashes with French peacekeepers that left the West African nation's air force in shreds.
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The Ivory Coast President, Laurent Gbagbo, has boycotted African Union peace talks aimed at ending the violence in his country, and opened a war of words with the French President, Jacques Chirac.
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The exodus of foreigners from Ivory Coast aboard emergency flights organized by France and other countries picked up on Friday after xenophobic chaos spread through Abidjan and other parts of the nation.
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French citizens queued at Ivory Coast's main airport on Wednesday to flee their former West African colony as violent anti-French protesters massed for a fifth day in support of President Laurent Gbagbo.
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Sudan's two Darfur rebel groups walked out of peace talks in Nigeria for 24 hours Saturday, saying they needed to mourn 75 civilians killed by Sudanese government forces and Arab Janjaweed militia in the last three days.
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More than 10,000 Ivorians flee into Liberia as an immediate arms embargo is imposed on Ivory Coast.
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An exodus of foreigners from Ivory Coast continued Saturday as President Laurent Gbagbo sacked the head of the army, hours before West African leaders were due to meet for emergency talks on the crisis.
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Bouake - President Thabo Mbeki left this rebel town in Ivory Coast after talks on Sunday, saying mediators would prepare proposals to end the crisis in the country.
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An exodus of foreigners from Ivory Coast has showed no signs of easing as African leaders prepare to meet to seek ways to end the crisis in the West African country.
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An exodus of foreigners from Ivory Coast showed no signs of easing on Saturday as African leaders prepared to met to seek ways to end the crisis in the West African country.
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N'DJAMENA  - The French and U.S. embassies in Chad were preparing their nationals there for possible evacuation on Saturday as advancing rebels opposed to President Idriss Deby threatened the capital N'Djamena from the northeast.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - Rebels in the north of  Ivory Coast pledged to continue their fight to oust President  Laurent Gbagbo as African leaders scrambled on Wednesday to  find a plan to prevent all-out war in the world's top cocoa  grower.
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The fugitive East Timor rebel leader surrounded in his hideout by Australian-led troops refused Friday to negotiate with a senior government official by telephone, demanding face-to-face talks.