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/ 14 July 2005

Who is Ivorian?

Two years after Ibrahim Kone applied to renew his national identity card, he found it by chance — floating down a river in Bouake, a rebel-held Côte d’Ivoire town. Kone believes the laminated document was dumped there with a box full of others by authorities who doubted he was Ivorian, and ”never had any intention of issuing it”.

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/ 6 April 2005

Captive New Zealander dies in rebel jail

A New Zealander, held captive for almost a month by Ivorian rebels on suspicion of being a mercenary working for the government, has died in a rebel jail, Red Cross and rebel officials said on Tuesday. Brian Hamish Sands (36) was found dead in his prison cell in the northern town of Korhogo on Monday night.

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/ 30 September 2003

Gun battle between Côte d’Ivoire rebels

Members of Côte d’Ivoire’s rebel forces on Tuesday exchanged gunfire in Bouake, the rebels’ stronghold in the centre of the divided West African country. Shooting erupted in a fire station far from French peacekeepers who have stepped up patrols since a botched bank robbery by rebel soldiers killed 23 at the weekend.

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/ 1 October 2002

Ivory Coast set up website

Rebels in Ivory Coast have set up a website and have begun broadcasting their own television programs from their central stronghold of Bouake. Since Monday evening, rebels have been broadcasting on the same channel as the Ivorian national network, RTI.

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/ 1 January 2002

‘We are dying in little bits’

The fighting raged so close that bullets whizzed through the jail yard. Locked in their cells, the prisoners grew frantic. They pounded and hacked at the doors. Some managed to break out, escape over the walls and hide in the bush. But instead of freedom, many met death, fellow inmates say.