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COTE
D'IVOIRE: CHAOS AND MORE INSTABILITY AS NINE FRENCH
SOLDIERS ARE KILLED AND THE FRENCH DESTROY THE
IVORIAN AIRFORCE FLEET, AND
AN EYEWITNESS REPORT ON THE DEVASTATION CAUSED
BY LOCUSTS IN A SENEGALESE VILLAGE
Cote D'Ivoire remains in deep crisis
with anti-French feeling running high in Abidjan.
French troops destroy the entire fleet of the
Ivorian air-force after nine French soldiers were
killed. The French Envoy to the UN, Jean-Marc
de La Sabliere, defends his country's action:
"It was a deliberate act against our camp
and the decision taken by President Chirac to
destroy the Ivorian aircraft has been supported
widely."
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