Africa backs French troops in Ivory Coast
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The African Union (AU) said yesterday it supports United Nations and French intervention in Ivory Coast as UN Security Council held talks last night on a French resolution to impose an arms embargo on Ivory Coast.
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A French army vehicle in front of a large convoy observes pro government demonstrators while civilians look on in the outskirts of the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast on Monday Nov. 8, 2004.
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Supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo say the war in Ivory Coast is now against both rebels and France, after French forces destroyed most Ivorian military aircraft and army weapons.
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African leaders backed an arms embargo and other immediate U.N. sanctions against Ivory Coast on Sunday, isolating President Laurent Gbagbo's hard-line government even further in its deadly confrontation with ...
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French troops killed about 20 people in Ivory Coast during unrest earlier this month, the Defense Ministry in Paris said on Tuesday, as controversy grew over the French military's handling of the crisis.
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France is blaming President Laurent Gbagbo for the attacks on French interests in the Ivory Coast, as it moves to boost its military presence in the West African nation.
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France sent hundreds more troops to the Ivory Coast commercial capital of Abidjan on Sunday, as government loyalists went on a violent rampage taking aim at the
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France chairs a Security Council summit on Africa here Tuesday expected to endorse sending European Union and UN troops to Chad and the Central African Republic to protect civilians reeling from a spillover of the Darfur conflict.
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France has ordered more troops to Ivory  Coast to protect French citizens after nine French soldiers and  a U.S. aid worker were killed in a government bombing raid and  Ivory Coast troops fired on French forces.
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African leaders backed an arms embargo and other immediate UN sanctions against Ivory Coast on Sunday, isolating President Laurent Gbagbo&#39;s hard-line government
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast -- President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa traveled yesterday to the rebel-held north of Ivory Coast, telling cheering crowds that his peacemaking efforts were designed to improve the life of all people in the former French colony and economic hub of West Africa.
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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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Jacques Chirac has ruled out any withdrawal of French troops from Ivory Coast, despite unrest and anti-French attacks, which have forced the evacuation of thousands of Westerners.
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AFRICAN leaders have backed an arms embargo and other immediate UN sanctions against Ivory Coast, isolating President Laurent Gbagbo&#39;s hardline Government even further in its deadly confrontation with its former colonial ruler, France.
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French soldiers fired to disperse  protesters on Tuesday after days of rioting in Ivory Coast's  main city Abidjan as South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki gave  an upbeat assessment of a brief peace mission to the country.
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France sent 600 more troops to Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abijan, as mobs rampaged against French expatriates.
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France deployed troops in Ivory Coast's  main city on Sunday to protect its citizens from mob violence  which erupted after French forces destroyed most of the West  African nation's small air force.