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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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It is also a Western plan to draw neighbouring States like Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and the Gambia into the Sierra Leone civil war in a big way, thus regionalise the war in a catena of the on-going debacle in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ivory Coast, once a beacon of relative stability and wealth, is split across the middle, convulsed by mercenary gang killings reminiscent of recent conflicts in neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Cote d'Ivore Reuters April 13 2001 Six paramilitary gendarmes in Ivory Coast have been charged with murder in connection with the massacre of 57 young men during violence after last year's elections , the ruling party's newspaper said on Friday.
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Luigi Pascioni,
Auto Mechanic
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Ivory Coast boosted their chances of pipping Tunisia in a two-team race for the Group D qualifying place by thrashing Madagascar 6-0 in Abidjan with striker Ibrahim Bakayoko scoring a hat-trick.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Berenger is the son of Prince Edouard and is well known to me as a keyboard player on numerous Ivory Coast releases recorded at his father's Studio Prince in Abidjan.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The violence has brought back to the surface Ivory Coast's old bitterness dividing the tribes of opposition leader Alassane Ouattara in the largely Muslim north from those of the more heavily Christian and animist south.
In the Ivory Coast and the Gold Coast (now Ghana), the Liberian Kru, William Wade Harris spearheaded a revival in 1914 quite distinct from the western Pentecostal movement, but with many Pentecostal phenomena including healing and speaking in tongues, the largest ingathering of Africans to Christianity the continent had ever seen.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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There are now at least three groups of rebels By Paul Welsh BBC West Africa correspondent Perhaps the only thing now clear about Ivory Coast's war is that it is confused.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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In Liberia, defense officials claim that militiamen allied to Ivory Coast's government came to the border at least twice last week to warn that they would attack Liberia if Liberians did not stop fighting alongside the rebels in Ivory Coast.
ABIDJAN (AFP) - Ivory Coast helicopter gunships strafed a rebel-held town in the west of the country and killed 15 civilians, insurgents said in the west African state.
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Ivory Coast's military claimed fighters crossed over from Liberia and attacked their positions in the west Thursday, in what it called a "flagrant violation" of a truce for peace talks.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Ivory Coast's first military coup, led by General Robert Guei, toppled the ruling Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire on December 24, 1998 and put in place the Committee of National Salvation.
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