Ivorian leader hits out at France
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo accuses France of supporting rebels in the country's renewed civil war.
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French soldiers fired to disperse  protesters on Tuesday after days of rioting in Ivory Coast's  main city Abidjan as South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki gave  an upbeat assessment of a brief peace mission to the country.
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France's President Chirac condemns racist violence that led to a policeman shooting dead a football fan.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s rebel chief said on Thursday he wanted President Laurent Gbagbo charged with war crimes as the West African country&#39;s leader called on thousands of foreigners who fled mob violence to return.
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French forces opened fire Tuesday as protesters massed between the Ivory Coast president&#39;s home and an evacuation post for foreigners.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo called, in a radio interview aired in Paris on Thursday, for French businessmen to return to Ivory Coast, the divided West African state hit recently by anti-French and ...
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The Central African Republic's main opposition coalition has condemned France's military intervention against rebels in the northeast of its impoverished and unstable former colony.
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French forces wiped out Ivory Coast&#39;s military aircraft in retaliation for the killing of nine of its soldiers stationed here, as anti-French feeling reach boiling point in the west African former French colony.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9 (IPS) - France is coming under fire for its  heavy-handed  action in destroying virtually the entire air force of its   former colony C- te d'Ivoire in retaliation for the  killings of nine French  soldiers and a U.S. aid worker last  week.
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Ivory Coast's rebel chief said on  Thursday he wanted President Laurent Gbagbo charged with war  crimes as the West African country's leader called on thousands  of foreigners who fled mob violence to return.
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France's president condemns charity workers caught trying to take 100 children out of the Chad-Darfur region.
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A summit of French-speaking nations is to focus on the civil war in Ivory Coast which resumed three weeks ago, ministers say. The Francophone summit in Burkina Faso is due to consider a motion condemning the actions of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo.
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PARIS, Nov 24  - France&#39;s military intervention in Ivory Coast was a mistake, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said Wednesday in an interview published ahead of President Jacques Chirac&#39;s visit to Tripoli.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame has renewed his attacks on France amid a diplomatic row over the 1994 genocide, accusing it of having trained and armed forces involved in the massacres.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki  tried to defuse a crisis in Ivory Coast on Tuesday which has  triggered days of rioting, put French troops on the streets and  paralyzed cocoa exports in the world's top grower.
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France sent hundreds more troops to the Ivory Coast commercial capital of Abidjan on Sunday, as government loyalists went on a violent rampage taking aim at the
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast  - French troops in Ivory  Coast's main city of Abidjan fired into the air on Monday to  disperse thousands of demonstrators massing to support the West  African country's President Laurent Gbagbo.