Word: ivorians
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...relieved Louisiana Governor Mike Foster. Less fortunate were the Caribbean island nations on Lili's route to the U.S.: she killed four people each in Jamaica and St. Vincent, as well as causing extensive damage on Barbados, where 400 homes were destroyed. IVORY COAST Can They Stop? The Ivorian government and rebel soldiers moved toward the signing of an unconditional cease-fire after intense negotiations mediated by West African diplomats. The rebels, who hold areas in the north of the Ivory Coast, including the cities of Bouake and Korhogo, have been battling the government of President Laurent Gbagbo since...
...arrivals helped make Abidjan, the commercial capital, one of Africa's most cosmopolitan cities. For many years even the term refugee was considered dirty because, in the words of founding President Félix Houphou?t-Boigny, citizens of neighboring African countries should be welcomed as "brothers." Not anymore. Today Ivorian society is split along ethnic lines and teeters on the edge of civil war. Three weeks ago, a group of disgruntled soldiers mutinied after being demobilized. The revolt quickly turned to open conflict between troops loyal to the government of Laurent Gbagbo - who came to power two years...
...Sometimes a group of girls is taken to a local school or hall and shown films about the dangers of FGM. The week often ends with a party. "We are not against people's customs, we are against the cutting," says Traoré Dosso Mariam, secretary-general of the Ivorian Association for the Defence of Women's Rights, which encourages alternative rituals...
...slowly becomes more common for young women to shun circumcision, the heavy stigma of being "uncut" is fading. Ivorian Banassiri Sylla, 34, recalls the day 26 years ago when she was to be circumcised. "I remember the blade. How it shone! There was a woman kneeling over me with the knife. I bit her; it was all I could do. Then three women came to hold me down. One of them sat on my chest. I bit her with all my might." The women finally let Sylla go, but her uncut status was a mark of shame for her family...
...benches in front of the building. Next to them a young man held a laminated charter of "rules" for hiring the girls. "I don't recognize this as African," says Constance Yai, a former Ivory Coast minister of family and social affairs who is now president of the private Ivorian Association for Women's Rights. "It's commerce pure and simple...