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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Ivory Coast&#39;s rebels pledged on Monday to drive President Laurent Gbagbo&#39;s army back to the main city Abidjan if it attacks their territory again, raising the
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French citizens wait to depart to France at the airport of Abidjan , Ivory Coast, on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004. African leaders convened in an emergency summit on Ivory Coast&#39;s crisis on Sunday without this country&#39;s
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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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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo said he&#39;s ordered new aircraft and vowed to buy more if necessary after France wiped out the country&#39;s two-plane air force in response to a strike on the former colonial ruler&#39;s own troops.
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Ivory Coast's leader vows not to block peace moves in the divided nation as the UN imposes an arms embargo.
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ABIDJAN : An exodus from Ivory Coast began as France sent planes to evacuate nationals while thousands of Ivorians fled across the borders to escape violence that has claimed a reported 145 lives.
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Ivory Coast stops exporting cocoa as farmers strike over prices.
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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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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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South African President Thabo Mbeki is  expected in Ivory Coast on Tuesday to try to defuse a crisis  which has triggered days of mob violence and put French troops  on the streets of the main city.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast African leaders are backing an immediate arms embargo against Ivory Coast as well as a travel ban and freezing of assets.
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Cote d&#39;Ivoire opposition group the New Forces agreed in Pretoria on Friday to disarm withina month and to send all ministers back to their posts.
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A French soldier walks past signs at the nearly empty check-in area of the Abidjan, Ivory Coast, airport on Monday, Nov. 15, 2004.
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Foreign Ministry officials are considering recalling diplomatic personnel now in the Ivory Coast capital of Abidjan due to increasing anti-French violence and widespread rioting and looting.
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AFRICAN leaders have backed an arms embargo and other immediate UN sanctions against Ivory Coast, isolating President Laurent Gbagbo&#39;s hardline Government even further in its deadly confrontation with its former colonial ruler, France.
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Ivory Coast's political rivals are to meet to try to save the disarmament process, which is supposed to start on Friday.