Violence erupts in Ivory Coast
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French troops clashed with soldiers and angry mobs Saturday after Ivory Coast warplanes killed at least nine French peacekeepers and an American civilian in an airstrike -- mayhem that threatened to draw ...
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Mobs loyal to the Ivory Coast government militias clashed with French peacekeeping troops in Abidjan in the worst violence observers have seen between France and its former colony in decades.
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Angry mobs in Ivory Coast have burned and looted in the country&#39;s largest city. The machete-wielding residents have also laid siege to French military base and are searching for French families.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s President Laurent Gbagbo is urging Ivorians to stop attacking French citizens and businesses after French troops destroyed two Ivorian warplanes on Saturday, a presidential spokesman said.
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Supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo say the war in Ivory Coast is now against both rebels and France, after French forces destroyed most Ivorian military aircraft and army weapons.
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Mobs loyal to the Ivory Coast government roamed the streets in two major cities of the West African country Saturday, searching for foreigners to attack.
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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.
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INSTABILITY is a way of life in West Africa, and Ivory Coast is the latest tragic example. A 2-year-old cease-fire, brokered by France, between Muslim rebels and the government of President Laurent Gbagbo
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A number of people are killed after shooting at an anti-French rally in Ivory Coast's commercial capital.
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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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ABIDJAN, Nov 12  - Details of rapes and other violence began to emerge Friday after a week of unrest in Abidjan, as thousands of expatriates continued their exodus from Ivory Coast and African leaders moved to stem a crisis that could destabilize
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The flare-up of violence in the Ivory Coast - which has seen 300 British troops sent in to evacuate British nationals â-ould spread across West Africa and plunge the region back into conflict, a senior UN official has warned.
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French peacekeeping troops exchanged  fire with gunmen who attacked them as they traveled in a convoy  of armored vehicles in northern Ivory Coast on Tuesday, a  French army spokesman said.
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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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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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President Thabo Mbeki has left for the strife-torn Ivory Coast to help defuse conflict there, following a dramatic escalation of violence that saw scores of locals and peacekeepers killed last week.
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Ivory Coast accuses French troops of killing 30 unarmed civilians to avenge the death of nine French peacekeepers.