Ivory Coast Military Bombs Rebel City
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Government warplanes bombed the largest city in Ivory Coast&#39;s rebel-held north twice on Thursday in what a government military commander said was the launch of a new offensive to reunite the war-divided nation.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo accused France on Monday of backing his rebel opponents and compared its military behaviour in his country to the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast -- Ivory Coast warplanes bombed the largest city of the rebel-held north yesterday in waves of attacks, breaking a more than year-old cease-fire in the civil war that split West Africa's onetime economic powerhouse.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory  Coast fired into the air and French soldiers blasted teargas to  disperse stone-throwing demonstrators in the rebel-held town of  Bouake on Monday, peacekeepers said.
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DAKAR, Senegal Nov. 6 - In a swift and alarming escalation of the war in Ivory Coast, aerial bombings by two government warplanes killed eight French peacekeepers, as well as an American citizen, on Saturday
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France deployed troops in the Ivory  Coast's main city on Sunday to protect its citizens from mob  violence which erupted overnight after French forces destroyed  most of the small West African nation's air force.
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Angry mobs armed with machetes and clubs hunted foreigners through the streets of Ivory Coast&#39;s main cities yesterday to avenge the destruction of the country&#39;s air force by the French military.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s armed forces bombed the rebel stronghold of Bouake on Thursday in the first major outbreak of hostilities in the world&#39;s top cocoa grower since a truce more than a year ago.
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Rebels penetrate African nation's capital and clash with government troops near presidential palace.
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Ivory Coast's military killed nine  French soldiers in a bombing raid on the rebel stronghold of  Bouake on Saturday and opened fire on troops from the former  colonial power in the main city of Abidjan.
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Ivory Coast's rebels pledged on Monday to drive President Laurent Gbagbo's army back to the main city Abidjan if it attacks their territory again, raising the specter of all-out war in the West African country.
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France deployed troops in Ivory Coast's  main city on Sunday to protect its citizens from mob violence  which erupted after French forces destroyed most of the West  African nation's small air force.
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Bouake - Ivory Coast warplanes launched a second wave of bombing raids on a northern rebel-held stronghold on Thursday afternoon, reopening attacks after a more than year-old cease-fire in the west African nation.
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ABIDJAN - Three days of air strikes on former rebels in northern Ivory Coast have left 11 people dead and around 100 seriously wounded, a spokesman for the ex-rebel New Forces told AFP on Saturday.
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Sudanese government planes bomb the town of Haskinita in North Darfur, a rebel official tells the BBC.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s rebels pledged on Monday to drive President Laurent Gbagbo&#39;s army back to the main city Abidjan if it attacks their territory again, raising the
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French forces wiped out Ivory Coast&#39;s military aircraft in retaliation for the killing of nine of its soldiers stationed here, as anti-French feeling reach boiling point in the west African former French colony.