Unidentified gunmen attacked the two main military barracks in Côte d’Ivoire’s largest city, Abidjan, on Monday, setting off a battle with security forces that officials said killed 10 people and heightened tensions in the war-divided nation. Gunfire and heavy explosions shook the barracks at Akuedo for about an hour.
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/ 26 October 2004
A second day of peace talks on the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region broke off early on Tuesday, with rebels refusing face-to-face talks with the government until the African Union meets separately with both sides to draft an agenda. Delegates said the AU-brokered talks in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, will resume on Wednesday.
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