French Citizens Flee Ivory Coast Violence
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Hundreds of French citizens fled their  former colony Ivory Coast on Wednesday after days of  anti-French riots and looting in a country once seen as a model  for Africa of post-independence prosperity.
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Machete-waving mobs looted and burned in Ivory Coast's largest cities Sunday, laying siege to a French military base and searching house to house for French families after a day of ground and air clashes ...
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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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Rebels from Ivory Coast shunned peace talks in South Africa as hundreds more foreigners left the former French colony on Friday after days of mob violence.
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Angry mobs in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, marched on the airport, hours after it came under French control.
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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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Security forces opened fire Tuesday as thousands of angry government loyalists massed outside a French evacuation post for foreigners. Seven people were reported killed and  200 wounded in the incident as violence continued to pit France against its former prize colony.
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An exodus of foreigners from Ivory Coast continued Saturday as President Laurent Gbagbo sacked the head of the army, hours before West African leaders were due to meet for emergency talks on the crisis.
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The French military said Friday that several dozen foreigners had been victims of assaults, rapes and attempted rapes during the mob violence in Ivory Coast.
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A number of French women living in Ivory Coast were raped during anti-French violence in France&#39;s former West African colony over the past week, Foreign Ministry spokesman Herve Ladsous said in Paris.
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Violence in cities in Ivory Coast prompted the US to allow embassy workers and families of diplomats to leave after more than 2,000 nationals from France and other countries were evacuated from the West African nation.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- France was flying in hundreds of extra soldiers to Ivory Coast and the West African nation said it was pulling back its troops following the worst violence seen between France and its former colony in decades.
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The exodus of foreigners from Ivory Coast aboard emergency flights organized by France and other countries picked up on Friday after xenophobic chaos spread through Abidjan and other parts of the nation.
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More than 4,000 foreigners, mostly French, have left Ivory Coast in the recent surge of violence, says France.
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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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France started to evacuate thousands of its own and other foreign nationals from the Ivory Coast today, rescuing them from rampaging mobs targeting expatriates.
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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.