Ivory Coast to Pull Back Its Forces
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - 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&#39;s air force in shreds.
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President Laurent Gbagbo has named a hard-liner as army chief of staff, prompting diplomats to warn Sunday of a possible resumption of hostilities against the rebel-held north of the Ivory Coast.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - Ivory Coast rebels on  Monday vowed to repel army attacks as the U.N. Security Council  imposed an arms embargo on the world's top cocoa producer and  vowed to punish government and rebel leaders with more  sanctions next month to force them to return to the terms of a  2003 peace agreement.
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Rebel and government militia in Ivory Coast are due to start disarming formally, five years on from the civil war.
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Leaders at a summit in Burkina Faso of mostly French-speaking nations have condemned authorities in divided Ivory Coast for resuming hostilities in the rebel-held north earlier this month.
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French soldiers deployed in Ivory Coast to help evacuate expatriates from violent mob rioting will start pulling back from some positions in the main city Abidjan this week, the Ivorian army said on Sunday.
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On a continent that absorbs 75 percent of the world&#39;s UN peacekeeping forces and budget, Ivory Coast&#39;s violent downward spiral threatens hard-won gains against West Africa&#39;s devastating civil wars of the 1990s.
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The UN Security Council has voted to impose a 13-month arms embargo on the Ivory Coast. Battles between government and rebel forces in the troubled African nation prompted the intervention
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Ivory Coast's rebels pledged on Monday to drive President Laurent Gbagbo's army back to the main city Abidjan if it attacks their territory again, raising the specter of all-out war in the West African country.
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More French citizens prepared to quit  their former colony Ivory Coast on Thursday as African leaders  strived to stem the chaotic violence in the country which  threatens to plunge West Africa into turmoil.
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President Thabo Mbeki is due to visit the strife-torn Ivory Coast to help find a political solution for that country, following a dramatic escalation of violence that has embroiled French peacekeepers there.
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(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.
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Jacques Chirac has ruled out any withdrawal of French troops from Ivory Coast, despite unrest and anti-French attacks, which have forced the evacuation of thousands of Westerners.
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After suffering its biggest casualties since its peacekeeping operation began in Ivory Coast two years ago, France is stepping up pressure on Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo to cease all military action.
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France is to begin evacuating its nationals from Ivory Coast after days of anti-French demonstrations. The disturbances come in response to France&#39;s destruction of the Ivorian air force, in retaliation for
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Armed forces in Ivory Coast say they have foiled a coup plot, including a plan to assassinate President Gbagbo.
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TIEBISSOU, Ivory Coast  - Rebel and government soldiers in Ivory Coast pulled back on Saturday from front line positions held since a 2002-2003 civil war, in the first stage of a disarmament process to reunite the country.