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The American pastor and onetime presidential candidate was honoured at a ceremony with Amon N'Douffou V, king of the Agni people of the Krindjabo kingdom. The crowning ceremony was attended by bare-chested women. The king rules over a million members of his tribe, which venerates Michael Jackson after making him their prince after he visited the kingdom in 1992. Villagers deep in the rainforest launched a search for a successor to the singer who was crowned prince of the Agni people 17 years ago. The tribe held an extravagent two-day royal funeral for Michael Jackson. Traditional dancers and lookalikes of...

A national dance craze in Ivory Coast has spawned a black market in treatments claiming to increase one's bottom size. The dance in question has been inspired by DJ Mix and DJ Eloh's hit song Bobaraba, which means "big bottom" in the local Djoula language. When it plays you can be guaranteed that the dance floor will be packed with people shaking their derrieres. Even Ivorian footballers have adopted the moves and could be seen wiggling their bottoms in a curious on-pitch dance after each goal scored during the just-ended Africa Nations Cup. However, doctors have warned of the possible...

UN confirms inquiry of sexual abuse cases in Ivory Coast 23/07/2007 18:05 ABIDJAN, July 23 (AFP) The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast confirmed it was investigating cases of sexual abuse of Ivorian women, including young girls, by some Moroccan soldiers. "There was an internal investigation which proved the facts, but we are waiting the results of the full investigation led by our internal affairs services, which will confirm the facts," UN spokeswoman Margarita Amodeo told AFP. "There are minors among the victims concerned," she said. The United Nations at the weekend suspended a Moroccan peacekeeping unit based in...

http://thegiantotter.blogspot.com/2006/09/statistics-majority-of-muslims-support.html Statistics: Majority of Muslims support suicide bombing We now know from my previous article that a majority of Muslims in Palestine and Iraq support terrorism (53% and 61% respectively), while a large minority of Muslims in the UK support terrorism (25%). A further look into polls from the Pew Research Center for People and the Press has confirmed my previous conclusion; a majority of Muslims in most Islamic nations support terrorism. The PRC interviewed over 38,000 people during a four-month period in 44 nations. The conclusions of the Pew Global Attitudes survey are as follows: A majority of people...

Estonia has immobilised the ship at the heart of an environmental scandal in Ivory Coast and launched a criminal investigation after finding toxic waste on board, prosecutors said.The investigation was opened at the request of the environment ministry after the results of analyses conducted on the residue left from cleaning the Probo Koala's oil tanks came today," Piret Seeman, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, told �FР on Wednesday. "The results of the analyses show similarities between the waste on board the Probo Koala in Estonia and the waste delivered by the Probo Koala to Ivory Coast, which caused mass...

VATICAN CITY, SEP 25, 2006 (VIS) - This morning in the Apostolic Palace at Castelgandolfo, Benedict XVI received Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, and representatives from Muslim-majority countries that maintain diplomatic links with the Holy See. Participating in the meeting were heads of mission from Kuwait, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Ivory Coast, Indonesia, Turkey, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon, Yemen, Egypt, Iraq, Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, Albania, the Arab League, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Iran and Azerbaijan. Also present were 14 members of the Islamic Council of Italy and representatives from the Italian Islamic Cultural Center and the Office of...

Last week I participated on a panel on Capitol Hill under the aegis of the bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Côte d’Ivoire, co-chaired by Congressman John Boozman (R-Arkansas) and Congressman G.K. Butterfield (D-North Carolina). After an introduction by the Congressional Research Service’s director of African affairs, Nicolas Cook, who reviewed the context for the current crisis, three Ivorian envoys—Ambassador Saratta Ottro Zirignon-Touré, deputy chief of staff to Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo; Ambassador Daouda Diabate, Côte d’Ivoire’s representative to the United States; and Ambassador Philippe Djangoné-Bi, permanent representative of Côte d’Ivoire to the United Nations—passionately made the case for their country, whose...

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Abidjan - A Paris gang-leader was arrested overnight in Abidjan and has confessed to the kidnap, torture and murder of a young French Jewish man, Ivorian investigators said on Thursday, in a case that has horrified France. Youssouf Fofana, 25, could be extradited back to France by the end of the day, according to French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. Fofana is believed to have fled to Ivory Coast shortly after the dying Ilan Hamili was found on February 11 outside the French capital. "He has French nationality. He has been arrested by the Ivorian police. (French) police investigators are...

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary February 8, 2006 Message To the Congress of the United States MESSAGE TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Consistent with subsection 204(b) of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(b)(IEEPA), and section 301 of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1631 (NEA), I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order (the "order") blocking the property of certain persons contributing to the conflict in Côte d'Ivoire. In that order, I declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and...

Peacekeeping successes in Sierra Leone and Liberia in 2005 seem to have clouded the judgement of Security Council members on what still needs to be achieved in the world's poorest region. Increasingly desperate pleas for more peacekeepers for neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire - which has been divided between the rebel-held north and government-ruled south since a failed coup attempt in September 2002 - continue to go unheeded. This leaves the UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) dangerously exposed to the rising tide of nationalist violence that seeks to sweep it out of the country. An international working group set up to...

"To get their supporters out into the streets last week, youth leaders aired hate messages on radio and state TV, a favoured medium for whipping up political sentiment in Cote d’Ivoire since the country descended into civil war after a failed coup in September 2002. The battle for control of the airwaves has been at the centre of the struggle for power in Cote d’Ivoire, with factions notably seeking a hold over state radio and television broadcaster Radiodiffusion Television." Ivorienne (RTI)."

The Ivory Coast erupted into chaos yet again overnight, with opposing gangs roaming the streets and committing violence despite the presence of United Nations peacekeepers tasked with defending a cease-fire between the two sides of the Ivorian civil war. One UN contingent finally opened fire to protect themselves, killing four Ivorians, while another shot weapons in the air and fired teargas to cover their retreat: IVORY COAST, once one of the wealthiest countries in Africa, was close to its second civil war in five years yesterday as gangs of armed thugs loyal to President Gbagbo ran amok across the southern...

United Nations peacekeepers in Ivory Coast's main city are under siege by supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo. More than 2,000 protesters have tried to force their way into UN headquarters in Abidjan, and had to be held back by warning shots and tear gas. More than 300 troops have been forced to withdraw from two UN bases in the west of the country after clashes that left at least four protesters dead.

Bangladeshi United Nations peacekeepers have pulled out of a camp in western Ivory Coast after clashing with supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo. Four people are reported to have been killed when a UN base in Guiglo, 300km (187 miles) from Abidjan, was attacked. France has called for calm in towns and cities in the government-controlled south after three days of protests. Mr Gbagbo supporters are angry at international mediators wanting to dissolve the pro-Gbagbo parliament. The ruling party subsequently pulled out of the transitional government and UN-backed peace talks and is calling on the 10,000 French and UN troops keeping...

Ivory Coast's ruling party has called on peacekeepers to pull out, while protesters have attacked UN bases. Supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo are angry at international mediators, who say that parliament, which backs Mr Gbagbo, should stand down. UN troops have fired tear gas to repel protesters in the main city, Abidjan, while a UN base has been overrun in the western town of Guiglo. The ruling FPI has also said that it is pulling out of the peace process. The mediators were appointed by the UN to help steer the country towards elections, due this year. Ivory Coast has...

AFP is reporting a French sergeant-major was placed under judicial investigation for murder on Wednesday over the death of an Ivorian man in French military custody in Ivory Coast in May. A source close to the inquiry said the non-commissioned officer had admitted under questioning his responsibility in the act. Firmin Mahe, described by the French army as a dangerous bandit, was killed by suffocation by French soldiers in an armored vehicle on May 13 after being shot in the leg, then captured and taken for treatment by French soldiers. He died in a jeep on the way to hospital....

I got this in my FreepMail just now. Posting so I can alert the mods and Jim Rob Dear, I am Mrs. Peace Toya from Ivory Coast. I am a widow being that I lost my husband a couple of some years ago. My husband was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting board until his death . He was assassinated January 2002 by the rebels following the political uprising.Before his death he had a foreign account here in Cote d'Ivoire up to the tune of $9 Million dollars which he told the bank that it was for the importation...

Diamond-producing countries and the diamond industry agreed yesterday to take unprecedented measures to stop the smuggling of "conflict diamonds" from West Africa. A resolution on Ivory Coast was unanimously approved at the Moscow plenary meeting of the Kimberley Process, the UN-backed international scheme to stop the illegal trading of gems. Recognising that millions of dollars' worth of conflict diamonds were being smuggled out of the rebel-held areas of Ivory Coast, members of participating countries agreed to put in place practical measures to stop the flow. "Intervention on the trade side will impose specific controls for diamonds in the whole West...

French troops suffocated Ivorian Some 10,000 French and UN peacekeepers are in Ivory Coast French troops in Ivory Coast killed an Ivorian man by suffocation in May while he was in their custody, the French Defence Ministry has said. The French forces commander at the time was informed of what had happened, but did not report it to his superiors. Gen Henri Poncet was suspended last month in connection with the death. France's 4,000-strong peacekeeping mission, supported by UN troops, is enforcing a fragile truce between the Ivorian government and northern rebels. The prisoner, Firmin Mahe, "was killed by suffocation...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - A red T-shirt draped over the statue of a former colonial governor bears a curt message for French peacekeepers in this war-divided West African country: "Get out." The tenuous relationship between Paris and its former colony suffered another blow Wednesday when the French Defense Ministry confirmed that troops in Ivory Coast suffocated an Ivorian prisoner in an armored vehicle in May, and commanders knew of the killing but did not notify their superiors. Gen. Henri Poncet, who commanded the peacekeeping mission, was suspended from duty and given an official warning while the investigation continues. "Certainly this...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Ivory Coast's president vowed to stay in power for another year Sunday as security forces fired into the air and hurled tear gas at opposition militants protesting a bitterly disputed, U.N.-backed extension of his mandate. Laurent Gbagbo also said he would name a new prime minister within days to ensure presidential elections are held within 12 months. Late Sunday, rebels issued a statement proclaiming rebel leader Guillaume Soro the new premier, although they have no legal authority to do so. The move was sure to increase tensions in the West African country. A presidential ballot,...

BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (AP)--Rebels in Ivory Coast expressed shock Friday over an African Union call for Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo to remain in office for another year after canceled Oct. 30 elections, saying they would reject any extension of his mandate. In the government-held south, Gbagbo's ruling party welcomed the A.U. statement which called Thursday for Gbagbo to remain in power and appoint a new prime minister to lead a transitional government. A.U. leaders had gathered in Ethiopia to discuss the situation in the West African country, where a constitutional crisis has been brewing since Gbagbo announced last month that...

In 2001, two American congressmen set up legislation pushing for a cocoa certification program designed to protect the thousands of children working in the sector. Four-years later, little has changed for the working children of Ivory Coast. Joe Bavier visited a plantation near Agboville in southeast Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa exporter and has this report for VOA. At the end of a trail head leading through dense forest to a 30-hectare cocoa plantation, a half-dozen shirtless young men and adolescents take a break from work. During the July lull in the cocoa-growing season, they had been 'cleaning', hacking...

July 2, 2005: American military commanders are becoming increasingly worried about developments in West Africa, particularly the Gulf of Guinea. The western end (Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone) is in melt-down, barely being held from total chaos by some 20,000 international peacekeepers. Worse, bandits and militiamen from these countries have occasionally spilled over into neighboring Guinea, threatening its stability and creating humanitarian emergencies, as they plunder, murder, and kidnap local people. At the other end, Nigeria is in semi-chaos, with the threat of religious civil war hovering over it while being troubled by increasingly dangerous criminal gangs pirating oil....

COTONOU, Benin (Reuters) - When she was 8, Rachelle Akawe's aunt sent her from Benin to work as a domestic servant in Niger. After 10 years, Akawe finally returned home, her childhood gone and her dreams in tatters. "I wanted to be a lawyer. Now at 26, I am learning to read and write," she said. "When you are a child slave, you do not have a choice ... you always feel abandoned ... you have no future. It stays with you for the rest of your life." Akawe's tale is unfortunately common in Benin, a tiny West African nation...

From N’guessan Richard. From richardessan | 06/01/2005 1:12:21 AM PDT new From N’guessan Richard. Abidjan, IvoryCoast, West Africa. richessan@yahoo.fr Tell - +225 -07- 46- 06- 07 Attn :The Director, In no doubt ,I know that it will be a suprise to you to present this very great dael to you.I decide so after having understood your good reputation.I want you to give me the maximum assistance , not betraying the trust and confidience which I have in you. I am the son of N’guessan Rex. Patrice.My father was kidnapped by the uniformed men and later found dead on sunday 7th...

Four French peacekeepers are being investigated over accusations of sexual abuse against a girl in Ivory Coast. The French army said it received a complaint that the four abused the girl at Madinani village, in northern Ivory Coast, earlier this month. Neither the girl's age or identity, nor the soldiers' names, were disclosed. Some 4,000 French soldiers are serving alongside 6,000 UN troops in the former French colony, which has been divided by a two-and-a-half year rebellion. The French said there was as yet no evidence to confirm the allegations. Strained relations "We will treat this affair with the greatest...

Al-Qaïda and Taylor destabilize West Africa New York (the United Nations) - terrorist organization Al-Qaïda is active in West Africa and supports in particular activities of destabilization of the area to which the bast former president Charles Taylor delivers itself, affirmed Tuesday of the members of the special Court for Sierra Leone. The principal target of these activities of destabilization is Guinea where an attempted murder of president Lansana Conte already took place last January, in which Charles Taylor was implied, Al White affirmed, principal investigator of the Court, at the time of a press conference to the head...

April 21st could theoretically herald another new start for the peace process in Cote d’Ivoire. Government and rebel forces are due to start withdrawing heavy weaponry from the front line as a "goodwill gesture" prior the long-delayed disarmament of the rebel New Forces that control the north of the country. Since good will has been in short supply in Cote d’Ivoire for some time, there is scepticism about the prospects for disarmament--and, crucially, the holding of national elections--this time around. There have, however, been a number of positive developments in recent weeks. In early April, for example, the South African...

French President J.Chirac’s remarks on President T. Mbeki’s peace efforts in Ivory Coast have unleashed a political and diplomatic tsunami in Africa and in the Diaspora. During a state visit to Senegal in February 2005, the French Head of State said: ”West Africa is West Africa. It has its own characteristics. You have to know it well.”Pr Shadrack described the French President’s comments as representative of a “typical racist mentality of a former colonizer” French President Jacques Chirac’s remarks on President Thabo Mbeki’s peace efforts in Ivory Coast have unleashed a political and diplomatic tsunami in Africa and in the...

PARIS - Didier Julia, the French lawmaker a reporter taken hostage in Iraq called for by name in a video released by her abductors, is seen as a maverick member of President Jacques Chirac's ruling party -- and someone with close ties to Syria and the deposed regime of Saddam Hussein. The 71-year-old representative of the Seine-et-Marne region outside Paris first rose to prominence last September, when he headed an unofficial -- and unsuccessful -- mission to free two other French reporters kidnapped in Iraq. The failure of that venture, conducted from a luxury hotel suite in the Syrian capital...

UNITED NATIONS - France circulated a draft U.N. resolution Tuesday that would boost the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast by more than 1,200 personnel to help counter precarious security and monitor an arms embargo. The request for 1,226 new military personnel for the Ivory Coast mission, which currently consists of 6,000 U.N. peacekeepers, was made in a January report by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Some 5,000 French troops are also in the country but operate independently. The draft resolution is meant "to take into account the SG's report," France's U.N. Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere said, using the secretary-general's...

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/10955491.htm?1c Many Africans see U.S. as distant saviorBRYAN MEALERAssociated Press LOME, Togo - As President Bush visits Europe this week, he is up against a continent brimming with hostile public opinion. But while Americans have grown used to being condemned as global bullies, at least one region has people looking to them for salvation.For many of the young people who take to the streets in protest in Lome and other blighted, overlooked capitals across Africa, only one distant power seems great enough to defeat the local forces of tyranny: the U.S. military."Tell George Bush to send us guns," young...

LOME, Togo - As President Bush (news - web sites) visits Europe this week, he is up against a continent brimming with hostile public opinion. But while Americans have grown used to being condemned as global bullies, at least one region has people looking to them for salvation. For many of the young people who take to the streets in protest in Lome and other blighted, overlooked capitals across Africa, only one distant power seems great enough to defeat the local forces of tyranny: the U.S. military. "Tell George Bush (news - web sites) to send us guns," young protesters...

The United States is investigating whether Pakistani scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan sold nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and other countries, Time magazine reported Sunday. The news weekly, citing a source in Pakistan's defense ministry, said that Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, had also played a bigger role in helping Iran and North Korea with their nuclear programs than had been previously disclosed. "US intelligence officials believe Khan sold North Korea much of the material needed to build a bomb, including high-speed centrifuges used to enrich uranium and the equipment required to manufacture more of them," Time...

Chirac's Mbeki Barb Baffles Foreign Affairs Business Day (Johannesburg) NEWS February 4, 2005 Posted to the web February 4, 2005 By Hopewell Radebe Johannesburg French President Jacques Chirac's criticism of President Thabo Mbeki's peace efforts in west Africa has unleashed a storm, as the foreign affairs department urgently sought clarity on his comments. Chirac's statement in Dakar, Senegal, in which he said Mbeki failed to understand the "psychology and soul" of west Africa, has also set off a diplomatic row. Chirac also claimed Mbeki had not achieved much in the region. Mbeki is the African Union-appointed mediator in the conflict...

PRETORIA, Feb 3 (AFP) - South Africa on Thursday said it had achieved more in three months of peace efforts in Ivory Coast than previous brokers had in two years, rebutting remarks from French President Jacques Chirac who said Thabo Mbeki's peace missions had "not had a very great impact." On a visit to Senegal, Chirac said that the South African president, who is the African Union's mediator on Ivory Coast, lacked the understanding of the psychology and soul of west Africa. "President Mbeki was called in to break the deadlock," said Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad in response to...

French President Jacques Chirac has said he would order the withdrawal of his troops from Ivory Coast if African leaders asked him to do so. Speaking at the start of a two-day visit to Senegal, Mr Chirac said that France had no intention of staying in Ivory Coast unless it was wanted there. He said France would consider any request to stay, but only on condition that it was made by African leaders. France sent 4,000 troops to Ivory Coast following a failed coup in 2002. Since last year they have been policing a buffer zone with the northern half...

When experts from the US and the IAEA came upon blueprints for a 10-kiloton atomic bomb in the files of the Libyan weapons program earlier this year, they found themselves caught between gravity and pettiness. The discovery gave the experts a new appreciation of the audacity of the rogue nuclear network led by A. Q. Khan, a chief architect of Pakistan's bomb. Intelligence officials had watched Dr. Khan for years and suspected that he was trafficking in machinery for enriching uranium to make fuel for warheads. But the detailed design represented a new level of danger, particularly since the Libyans...

United Nations report has found proof of torture, mass executions and rape over the past two years in Ivory Coast, according to a French newspaper. Liberation says the unpublished report accuses both sides in the Ivorian civil war of violations of human rights. Rebels fighting President Laurent Gbagbo currently control the northern half of Ivory Coast. The report includes a secret list of 200 people who could face prosecution or UN sanctions, Liberation says. The newspaper said the 100-page report lays out "the nightmare of Ivory Coast in all its horror". Since a failed a coup against President Gbagbo in...

Maybe the Europeans are right. Perhaps we Americans don’t pay enough attention to the advice of our wiser, more experienced cousins on the Continent. When it comes to the arts of diplomacy and international affairs, surely Old Europe can teach a thing or two to the provincial, ham-fisted Yanks.Unfortunately, Europe is not as active on the world stage as it once was, so there aren’t many examples for our instruction and enlightenment. But have no fear. Even as we speak, Jacques Chirac and his foreign ministry are putting the finishing touches on their latest diplomatic masterpiece — the tragically botched...

French colonel denies troops fired in Abidjan PARIS, Dec 10 (AFP) - French troops did not fire on a crowd in the main Ivory Coast city Abidjan last month as tensions peaked in the country following the deaths of nine French peacekeepers in an Ivorian air raid, the soldiers' commanding officer said Friday. "My men could not have done that. We did not have weapons capable of inflicting such injuries," Colonel Patrick Destremeau, who commanded the French contingent implicated in the unrest outside the Hotel Ivoire last month, said in an interview published here in Liberation newspaper. The Ivorian government...

In a radical departure from years of Parisian critical rhetoric, the French ambassador to Israel, Gerard Araud, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that he thought Israel "has tried to show the utmost restraint" in the course of the conflict with the Palestinians since 2000. The ambassador even evinced a certain understanding of the deaths of Palestinians during the course of Israeli army activity. "It's unavoidable that in some operations...," he said, leaving that sentence uncompleted. "War is dirty, war is always dirty," he went on, and then added: "Occupation is never clean." France has been at the forefront of...

The country is on the verge of a civil war as an Air Force attack on a base of the French peacekeeping force breaks the 18-month-old ceasefire between government forces and rebels. *snip* On November 4, the Ivory Coast Air Force, for reasons that are still inexplicable, chose to attack a base occupied by French peacekeepers working under the United Nations flag. *snip* The French, who have been keeping the peace for the past two years, immediately retaliated by bombing into extinction the Ivorian Air Force, which consisted of two Sukhoi-25 jets and a few helicopters. The French also captured...

ABIDJAN, Dec 3 (AFP) - The leader of a group of hard line backers of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo on Friday called for a "huge march" next week to "demand the French army leave Ivory Coast." "In memory of our comrades who fell under the bullets of the French army and to give moral support to the many wounded who are still in hospital, we call for a huge, peaceful march on December 11 at the Place de la Republique," said Charles Ble Goude, head of the Young Patriots, at a press conference. The aim of the march would...

It's a western power waging war with Muslims in a Third World nation that wants the occupiers out. To top it off, the nation is a leading world supplier of a most valued commodity. I'm referring to France, its war in the west African country of the Ivory Coast, and that nation's status as the leading grower of cocoa beans - the source of chocolate and hot cocoa. France was the long time colonial power in the Ivory Coast and until recently as many as 14,000 French citizens lived there. A civil war that has been building in recent years...

The video of the French shooting unarmed protesters is about to air on Fox News.

11/30/2004: French Helicopters Fire on Ivory Coast CiviliansSwiss TV has video of French Army helicopters firing without warning on an Ivory Coast demonstration, on November 6, 2004. The LGF reader who emailed this link included these remarks: It’s a REALMEDIA video (23 seconds only). It’s from a Swiss TV (TSR.CH) news show from 30.11.2004.You learn that the 6 .11.2004 french army helicopters shooted WITHOUT “warnings shots” on the crowd made of hundreds people.——————Here is a translation:(speaking about 9.11.2004, Ivoiry hotel “massacre” )“....However it’s wasn’t the first time French Army shooted without ”warning shots“ (shot in the air).We are on November...

French troops fired on Ivorian crowds, Paris says 29 Nov 2004 12:41:19 GMT Source: Reuters PARIS, Nov 29 (Reuters) - French soldiers opened fire on crowds of angry youths during days of mob violence and looting in Ivory Coast earlier this month, French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said. French forces had previously said they fired warning shots during the unrest, but Alliot-Marie told France's RTL television on Sunday night the troops had most probably "made full use of their weapons" in some cases. The mob violence erupted after government forces killed nine French soldiers and an American aid worker in...