37 atrocities, including rape, against Ivory Coast foreigners: France
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Foreign residents in Abidjan were subjected to at least &quot;37 serious atrocities including three or four confirmed rapes,&quot; a representative of French expatriates in Ivory Coast said Friday.
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A witness has told a Rwandan commission  French troops raped women fleeing militia gangs during the  African country's 1994 genocide, the latest in a string of  allegations against France from Kigali.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Noah Adams speaks with NPR&#39;s Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about the growing unrest in the Ivory Coast, a former French colony.
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France acknowledges that its troops in Ivory Coast killed about 20 people during anti-French protests.
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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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A Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday chastised France for using expulsions to counter terrorism, saying when individuals are sent to countries where they risk torture, it seriously violates France's obligations under international law.
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Ivory Coast warplanes killed nine  French soldiers on Saturday in a bombing raid during the  fiercest clashes with rebels for 18 months and France hit back  by destroying most of the West African country's small  airforce.
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Ivory Coast says 63 people have been killed in a week of clashes with French troops as it hands over military powers to a former head of its northern command, whose appointment is considered a provocation by both the rebels and France.
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PARIS: France will act âtirelesslyâ to ensure the safety of French citizens and other foreigners in Ivory Coast, President Jacques Chirac said Friday.
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France has ordered more troops to Ivory  Coast to protect French citizens after nine French soldiers and  a U.S. aid worker were killed in a government bombing raid and  Ivory Coast troops fired on French forces.
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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.
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France will begin evacuating its nationals and other Europeans from Ivory Coast starting Wednesday, the spokesman of French forces in the troubled west African country said.
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France and the United Nations began evacuating thousands of French and other expatriates Wednesday trapped at U.N. offices and a French military base amid days of anti-foreigner rampages in Ivory Coast's largest city, French and U.N. officials said.
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In an attempt to ease tensions in the Ivory Coast, France has opted not to point the finger of blame at President Laurent Gbagbo for the violence that has roiled the country in the past week.
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France is to begin evacuating its nationals from Ivory Coast because of rampant anti-French feelings.
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French defense minister Michelle Alliot-Marie addresses reporters on the steps on the defense ministry in Paris Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004, after eight French soldiers were killed and 23 wounded in Ivory Coast
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (CP) - France defended itself Friday against accusations by Ivory Coast authorities, and some western evacuees, that it used excessive force to protect foreigners against violent mobs during five days of upheaval in its former West