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...violence began with early November air strikes and counterstrikes between Ivorian and French air forces, then spiraled out of control as clashes between French troops and armed supporters of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo left scores dead in Abidjan, the country's economic center. Toussaint Alain, an adviser to Gbagbo, told Time: "We deplore the lethal brutality of a French army behaving like an occupying force." Hundreds of British, American, Belgian, Dutch and Lebanese nationals, as well as more than 3,000 French residents were evacuated. "We are ready to fight for our freedom, to fight for our rights and liberty...
French intelligence services thwarted a plot last week to assassinate Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, and the plot's aftermath is roiling the strife-torn west African nation. Scores of Ivorians - including senior members of the country's military and police forces - were arrested last week in the commercial capital, Abidjan, after France said it had apprehended a group preparing to leave Paris to stage a coup against Gbagbo. The band of eight French and Ivorian nationals was led by Ibrahim Coulibaly - a renegade Ivory Coast army soldier who spearheaded a successful 1999 putsch, and was involved in a rebellion...
...government and rebel forces at the beginning of May. The French and West African troops were greeted by children - some wearing women's wigs - firing AK-47s into the air. The western region has seen brutal fighting since an armed rebellion split the country in two eight months ago. Ivorian rebels, many of them children, have engaged in recent weeks in pitched battles with mercenaries from neighboring Liberia. - By Kate Davenport/Zouan-Hounien Caught on Camera BRITAIN An 18-year-old British soldier on leave from his unit in Iraq was arrested for allegedly taking photos of other soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners...
...Peace The latest clashes in the Ivory Coast could drag some of the country's neighbors into its four-month-old civil war. Liberians were reportedly part of a force of fighters that last week surrounded government positions in the western town of Toulepleu, on the Liberian border. The Ivorian army said 29 people died, including four government soldiers, and that Liberian participation in the fighting was a certainty. But a Liberian Foreign Ministry spokesman said the Liberians were mercenaries. The attack follows incursions by both the Ivorian army and rebels across the Liberian border. The fighting came as government...
...tougher steps against terror groups. Police said the men were members of the Islamic extremist group Abu Sayyaf, which wants an Islamic state in the southern Philippines. IVORY COAST Neighborly Interest Burkina Faso demanded a halt to attacks on foreigners, a feature of the five-week long battle between Ivorian government troops and northern rebels. Burkina Faso Foreign Minister Youssouf Ouedraogo said: "We cannot tolerate any longer the killings of foreign civilians." He did not, however, specify what action his country would take. A 1998 census found 2.3 million Burkinabés in the Ivory Coast. U.S. Last Visit Jiang...