Ivory Coast Civil War

Possible Mass Graves In Ivory Coast

AP | By LAURA BURKE | Posted 03.14.2012

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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Investigators with the International Criminal Court may have found mass graves in a western Ivory Coast town, a court official...

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Ivory Coast Liberation Forces Turn On Each Other

AP | MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 06.21.2011

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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Ivory Coast's new army turned its guns on a former ally who helped install the democratically elected president but faile...

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Traumatized Refugees From the Ivory Coast: Too Scared to Go Home

Caroline Gluck | Posted 06.16.2011

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Caroline Gluck

Mother of three, Louise Blagnon, sits in the open air of the grounds of an abandoned school. Her face is etched with anxiety, clearly traumatized by the events of the past week.

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Humanitarian Crisis Unfolds In Ivory Coast: 5 Ways To Help

Posted 06.07.2011

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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) called for a major humanitarian response in Ivory Coast this week, as co...

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Ivory Coast Strongman's Bunker Under Attack

AP | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and MARCO CHOWN OVED | Posted 06.06.2011

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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Even after airstrikes pounded holes in his garden, even after fighters encircled his home and stormed the gates, Laurent ...

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Ivory Coast Refugees: 'Crying Day and Night'

Caroline Gluck | Posted 06.05.2011

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Caroline Gluck

"I cry every night," Pauline Bah told me. "I'm alone without my husband. It's hard to be alone in a strange country with the children."

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Fierce Fighting Spreads In Ivory Coast Showdown

Posted 06.01.2011

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Fierce fighting spread across Abidjan on Friday as troops loyal to Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo fended off attacks by forces sup...

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Ivory Coast Civil War Is Aflame, But Is Anyone Looking?

Drew Hinshaw | Posted 05.25.2011

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Drew Hinshaw

While the global eye remains fixed on Libya, a civil war has caught flame in Ivory Coast, and world leaders beyond the ailing country have all but acquiesced to letting it burn.

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Why Do Things Always Fall Apart in Africa?

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alemayehu G. Mariam

Unless Gbagbo peacefully leaves power, it seems inevitable that violence and conflict will again reign in the Ivory Coast destroying thousands of lives and the economy of one of the more prosperous African countries.

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