Foreigners Continue to Flee Ivory Coast
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Frightened Westerners - many of them longtime residents of this former African economic success story - piled into buses, boats and planes Saturday as a French-run evacuation built, despite government promises to protect the expatriates from a surge of
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Hundreds more Europeans were evacuated from Ivory Coast on Friday amid tales of pillaging and violence, as President Jacques Chirac pledged France would act "tirelessly" to ensure the safety of foreigners in ...
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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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Big French companies with interests in Ivory Coast are likely to maintain their business interests there despite the violence which has caused French nationals to flee, but the unrest has severely damaged about 600 small businesses, experts say.
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France has completed the evacuation of 5 000 Westerners and others from violence-torn Ivory Coast as Africans - with no hope of such rescue - have fled into neighbouring countries.
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More than 10,000 Ivorians have fled to Liberia since the sharp escalation in Ivory Coast's civil war 10 days ago, the UN refugee agency warned.
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Foreign nationals gather around the check-in section of the airport in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Wednesday, Nov.
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More Sudanese refugees flee across the border into Chad following reports of renewed violence in the Darfur region.
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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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UK forces are to undertake an evacuation of British nationals from the west African state of Ivory Coast. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said a company of the Royal Gurkha Regiment is &quot;pre-positioning&quot; in the
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Frightened foreigners kept packing into Ivory Coast&#39;s international airport Saturday to be evacuated home, despite promises by President Laurent Gbagbo&#39;s government to protect them after a surge of anti-Western violence.
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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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Gurkhas are to help evacuate British nationals from the trouble-hit west African country Ivory Coast.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- France concluded one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa yesterday and the UN Security Council imposed an immediate arms embargo against Ivory Coast, stepping up pressure to end the violence that spurred the exodus.
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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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Rebels from Ivory Coast shunned peace talks in South Africa as hundreds more foreigners prepared on Friday to leave the former French colony in the wake of days of mob violence.
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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.