Ivory Coast descends into chaos
108096
THOUSANDS of machete-wielding thugs looted and set fire to French targets in Ivory Coast yesterday after France responded with force to the killing of nine of its peacekeepers and an American missionary.
74974
The smoldering civil war in Ivory Coast - a two-year, on-again off-again conflict between the government and northern rebels
555947
ABIDJAN, Nov 13  - Hundreds of frightened Europeans continued to flee the Ivory Coast Saturday as an uneasy calm returned to the troubled west African country one week after angry mobs went on a rampage against foreigners.
88691
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Security forces opened fire yesterday as thousands of angry government loyalists massed outside a French evacuation post for foreigners, reportedly killing seven people and wounding 200 in violence pitting France against its former prize colony.
484824
The president of Ivory Coast sacks his army chief of staff, amid escalating tension  in the West African country.
79252
Government forces in Ivory Coast clash with former rebels for the first time in months, following air strikes.
158508
France, the United Nations and foreign embassies are starting to evacuate foreigners from Ivory Coast where five days of mob violence and protests have gutted the commercial capital, Abidjan.
587411
NIAMEY, Niger -- French troop reinforcements flew to the coastal city of Abidjan in riot-torn Ivory Coast yesterday amid rising concerns that the conflict between government and rebel forces was on the verge of spiraling out of control and could dramatically hurt its West African neighbors.
280904
ABIDJAN: An exodus from Ivory Coast began yesterday with a first planeload of French nationals while thousands of Ivorians fled to escape a week of deadly violence, amid new tensions that sent thousands into Abidjan&#39;s streets.
637419
French troops clashed with soldiers and angry mobs Saturday after Ivory Coast warplanes killed at least nine French peacekeepers and an American civilian in an airstrike -- mayhem that threatened to draw ...
434178
Splits emerged between African leaders on   Thursday over how to reunite war-divided Ivory Coast and French   President Jacques Chirac said the former French colony was in a   "disastrous" state.
86646
More than 4,000 foreigners have left Ivory Coast in the recent surge of violence, says France.
353893
(SH) - French troops are enforcing an uneasy calm in Ivory Coast, where suddenly much of the population turned against them, treating them as hated occupiers instead of welcome peacekeepers.
748329
Angry mobs in Ivory Coast have burned and looted in the country&#39;s largest city. The machete-wielding residents have also laid siege to French military base and are searching for French families.
156247
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- France was flying in hundreds of extra soldiers to Ivory Coast and the West African nation said it was pulling back its troops following the worst violence seen between France and its former colony in decades.
385668
France sent reinforcements to Ivory Coast on Sunday after a bloody and confusing weekend ended with the small Ivorian air force shattered and thousands of angry people attacking French nationals and other foreigners, sometimes pulling them from their
161871
After several days of anti-French mob violence, France and the US began one of the most largest evacuations of hundreds of French citizens and thousands of others from Ivory Coast.