France's Ivorian Quagmire
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In 2003 France brokered a peace deal between President Laurent Gbagbo and northern rebels, and sent its soldiers to separate the two.
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French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy has said a "real genocide" is under way in the Sudanese province of Darfur.  In an interview broadcast by Radio Monte Carlo Info, he said:  [Douste-Blazy] "I've been to Darfur and I'm going back very soon.
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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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French imperialist forces appear to have reestablished control over Ivory Coast, their former prize colony in West Africa, although Paris remains unable to patch together a stable client regime.
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INSTABILITY is a way of life in West Africa, and Ivory Coast is the latest tragic example. A 2-year-old cease-fire, brokered by France, between Muslim rebels and the government of President Laurent Gbagbo
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French troop reinforcements flew to the coastal city of Abidjan in riot-torn Ivory Coast yesterday amid rising concerns that the conflict between
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As tensions continue to mount between France and Ivory Coast, French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie says Paris has no intention of withdrawing its troops from the West African country.
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FRANCE was on the brink of war with one of its former African colonies last night after planes belonging to the Ivory Coast government bombed peacekeepers in the rebel-held north, killing nine French troops and an American citizen and wounding 23 French
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THE 10th summit of French-speaking countries which opens tomorrow is supposed to focus on sustainable development but the resurgent crisis in Ivory Coast, once Francophone west Africa's brightest light, is ...
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A summit of French-speaking countries may have opened with the Ivory Coast at the top of its agenda, but it wasn't enough to keep the West African state at the table.
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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
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Mobs loyal to the Ivory Coast government militias clashed with French peacekeeping troops in Abidjan in the worst violence observers have seen between France and its former colony in decades.
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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.
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French troops traded fire with gunmen  who attacked them in northern Ivory Coast on Tuesday, the  French army said -- the latest challenge to peacekeepers  shoring up a peace deal in the divided West African country.
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The French seem to take intermittent pride in being the homeland of the satirist Voltaire.
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Laurent Gbagbo, president of the Ivory Coast, sets out a five-point plan to end the country's crisis.
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BEIRUT: Lebanese expatriates in Ivory Coast accused their government of neglecting them and overlooking their needs as anti-French rebellions wrack the country.