First French Citizens Leave Ivory Coast
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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  of post-independence prosperity for Africa.
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Africa News, France on Monday was shutting down one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa - a five-day airlift that flew more than five thousand Westerners and others out of Ivory Coast.
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The Yanks are leaving &#151; and many French didn't even realize they were here. The last U.S. military contingent in France said adieu to the country on Friday with a fittingly low-key ceremony. With European forces taking over peacekeeping in Bosnia, the Americans are being redeployed elsewhere, thus ending a chapter of unsung cooperation between Paris and Washington.
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More than 10,000 Ivorians flee into Liberia as an immediate arms embargo is imposed on 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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A French army vehicle in front of a large convoy observes pro government demonstrators while civilians look on in the outskirts of the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast on Monday Nov. 8, 2004.
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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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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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The ruling party in Ivory Coast calls for the 4,000 French peacekeepers in the country to leave.
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Ivory Coast's main city begins returning to normal after anti-French riots following a call for people to return to work.
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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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More than 4,000 foreigners, mostly French, have left Ivory Coast in the recent surge of violence, says France.
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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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ABIDJAN, Nov 13  - Hundreds of frightened Europeans continued to flee the Ivory Coast Saturday as an uneasy calm returned to the troubled west African country one week after angry mobs went on a rampage against foreigners.
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Power is restored to rebel-held northern Ivory Coast, as British citizens are evacuated from the country.
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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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France sent 600 more troops to Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abijan, as mobs rampaged against French expatriates.