French army sets up Lome base for Ivory Coast crisis
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The French military has set up a forward base in Togo to allow it to have aircraft within easy reach of Ivory Coast, which saw a sudden escalation in its two-year-old civil war last week, officials said here ...
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South African President Thabo Mbeki tried to defuse a crisis in Ivory Coast on Tuesday which has triggered days of rioting, put French troops on
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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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Joint patrols have begun in Ivory Coast&#39;s commercial centre, Abidjan, in an attempt to maintain law and order after three days of disturbances.
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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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France dispatched another 600 troops Sunday to help calm the volatile situation in the Ivory Coast, where French forces, deployed to enforce a shaky cease-fire, and ordinary civilians have been the targets of violence.
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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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PARIS - French troops killed more than 30 Ivory Coast nationals and wounded at least 100 others in the ongoing crisis in the west African country, Ivorian parliament speaker Mamadou Coulibaly said on French public radio France Inter on Sunday.
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ELEANOR HALL: Hundreds of French reinforcements have been sent to stop escalating violence in Ivory Coast. On the weekend, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the commercial capital Abidjan to
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France yesterday sent a further 300 troops to bolster a retaliation operation against the government of Ivory Coast after nine of its soldiers were killed in an air raid ordered
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Description: NPR&#39;s Noah Adams speaks with NPR&#39;s Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about the growing unrest in the Ivory Coast, a former French colony.
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FRANCE was on the brink of war with one of its former African colonies last night after planes belonging to the Ivory Coast government bombed peacekeepers in the rebel-held north, killing nine French troops and an American citizen and wounding 23 French
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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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France sent reinforcements to Ivory Coast on Sunday after a bloody and confusing weekend ended with the small Ivorian air force shattered and thousands of angry people attacking French nationals and other foreigners, sometimes pulling them from their
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Description: At least nine French soldiers and one US citizen die in Ivory Coast after an attack blamed on Ivory Coast government troops.
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France readied a U.N. resolution  that seeks an arms embargo on the Ivory Coast after nine French  soldiers and an American civilian were killed in a government  bombing raid.
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French imperialist forces appear to have reestablished control over Ivory Coast, their former prize colony in West Africa, although Paris remains unable to patch together a stable client regime.