Soldiers in Ivory Coast returned to barracks on Wednesday after some overnight disturbances, witnesses said, after the government agreed to pay back wages to thousands of ex-rebels in the army in a move to calm unrest, Reuters reported. The defence minister was due to meet in the afternoon with a delegation representing disgruntled soldiers, who on Tuesday erected barricades in the commercial capital Abidjan and the second city Bouake as well as in Korhogo, Odienne, and Daloa. Residents in the northern town of Korhogo and in Daloa, an important hub of the cocoa industry in the west, said armed soldiers deployed to major crossroads overnight but were off the streets by morning. Odienne and Abidjan were also calm.
