France begins evacuation of Europeans from Ivory Coast
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ABIDJAN, Cote D&#39;Ivoire (Ivory Coast) -- France began evacuating its nationals and other Europeans from violence-torn Ivory Coast Wednesday, when an Air France Boeing-777 took off from Abidjan airport for Paris with 270 people on board, French military
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South African President Thabo Mbeki has flown to Ivory Coast to launch an African effort to reign in chaos here, amid four days of sudden mob and government confrontations with French troops that have wounded more than 600 and
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France evacuated hundreds more citizens fleeing violence in Ivory Coast on Thursday as opposition leaders from its former colony gathered in South Africa for talks aimed at rebuilding peace.
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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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President Jacques Chirac says he will order French troops out of Ivory Coast if African leaders ask him to do so.
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France sent 600 more troops to Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abijan, as mobs rampaged against French expatriates.
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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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Around 400 Britons living in Ivory Coast are being told to gather at assembly points, ready to be flown from the violence in the west African state.
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AN advance guard of British troops was in war-torn Ivory Coast yesterday planning a rescue mission. Four vehicles carrying a dozen soldiers were spotted in the capital Abidjan as up to 120 troops were put on stand-by to fly to the former French colony.
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French diplomats and their families have hurriedly packed their belongings and prepared to leave Rwanda after the government severed relations with France in a major diplomatic row.
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The United Nations and France have begun mass evacuations of UN staff and foreign nationals following days of violence and looting in Ivory Coast, a UN spokesman said.
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France and the United States on Wednesday began evacuating thousands of foreigners trapped for days by violent attacks targeting French civilians and troops in this West African nation.
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France began evacuating its nationals and other Europeans from violence-torn Ivory Coast Wednesday, when an Air France Boeing-777 took off from Abidjan airport for Paris with 270 people on board, French military officials said here.
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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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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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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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An exodus of foreigners from Ivory  Coast showed no signs of easing on Saturday as West African  leaders prepared to meet in Nigeria for emergency talks about a  crisis which threatens the entire region.