The streets of Ivory Coast's second-largest city Bouake were calm and the military presence was gone, residents said on Sunday, after a two-day soldiers' mutiny calling for bonus pay and better living conditions took over the city.
The mutiny began (...)
Ivory Coast's rebel and army chiefs said on Saturday they would start pulling back heavy weapons from front lines in the war-divided West African nation from April 21.
"It is suitable to give a strong signal in proceeding with the withdrawal of (...)
Government warplanes bombed the leading city in Ivory Coast's rebel-held north Thursday in
what an Ivory Coast commander said was the relaunch of
full-scale government offensives.
"We are going to reconquer our territory, and reunify
Ivory (...)
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.
Witnesses said three protesters were taken to hospital (...)