| 5,608,552 |
5.34111 |
-4.02809 |
Ivory Coast |
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Attacks on West Africans by groups of militiamen and security forces working together. A Nigerian shopkeeper who described the March 1 attack by CECOS, an elite police and gendarme unit, in which the attackers made a clear reference to Bl Goud's comments, said the mob burned alive two Nigerien men. |
| 5,608,556 |
5.34111 |
-4.02809 |
Ivory Coast |
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On February 25 and March 1, West Africans were killed by militiamen after being pulled out of taxis. |
| 5,608,560 |
5.34111 |
-4.02809 |
Ivory Coast |
|
On February 28 and March 1, attackers amputated the penises of two other men, then killed them |
| 5,608,564 |
5.34111 |
-4.02809 |
Ivory Coast |
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West Africans were killed by militiamen after being pulled out of taxis. |
| 5,608,568 |
5.34111 |
-4.02809 |
Ivory Coast |
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Explosions rocked a southern Abidjan suburb overnight and on Wednesday, as fighting between insurgents seeking to oust Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo and security forces spread to new areas of the main city. |
| 5,608,572 |
5.34111 |
-4.02809 |
Ivory Coast |
|
Reports of days of violence which have seen youthful supporters of Laurent Gbagbo, the country's embattled leader, rampaging through Abidjan, pillaging shops owned by foreigners. |
| 5,608,577 |
5.34111 |
-4.02809 |
Ivory Coast |
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On March 2, an ambulance was stopped by FN forces at a checkpoint, allegedly discovering Kalashnikovs during the search. The driver was killed and ambulance burned. |
| 5,608,581 |
5.34111 |
-4.02809 |
Ivory Coast |
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On March 3, a handicapped man from Burkina Faso accused by militiamen of hiding rebels in his house was brought into an abandoned building and set on fire. |
| 5,608,586 |
5.34111 |
-4.02809 |
Ivory Coast |
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Reports of the killing of seven Ivorian women who were demonstrating peacefully in Abidjan on March 3 |
| 5,608,590 |
5.34111 |
-4.02809 |
Ivory Coast |
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Several Nigerian and Malian traders described how on March 4 and 8, mobs of an estimated 150 youths armed with machetes and axes chanted, "Kill, burn, kill, burn, all of you must leave," as they broke into and pillaged the stalls of scores of West African merchants in Yopougon - threatening the traders with death if they continued to sell there. |
