IVORY COAST: PEACE PROCESS AT DELICATE STAGE AFTER PRISON BREAKOUT

Record ID: 183666

  • Title: IVORY COAST: PEACE PROCESS AT DELICATE STAGE AFTER PRISON BREAKOUT
  • Date: 25th July 2005
  • Summary: (BN03) AGBOVILLE, IVORY COAST (JULY 26, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/SLV PEOPLE WALKING IN DESERTED STREET (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. SLV PEOPLE SITTING BY ROADSIDE 0.13 3. LV DESERTED MARKET (2 SHOTS) 0.20 4. SV SIGN SHOWING AGBOVILLE PRISON 0.25 5. SV CHILDREN LOOKING AT OPEN PRISON GATES 0.29 6. SLV EXTERIOR OF PRISON 0.34 7. SLV DOOR OF PRISON (2 SHOTS) 0.42 8. SLV/SV STREET SCENES WITH YOUNG MEN CARRYING GUNS (2 SHOTS) 0.51 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 9th August 2005 13:00
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  • Location: AGBOVILLE, IVORY COAST
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVACWGOQ8NQL233V1U5VW0LWD97B
  • Story Text: Peace process at delicate stage after prison
    breakout at weekend.



    Ivory Coast's ruling party on Monday (July 25)
    blamed rebels holding the north of the country for a series
    of attacks on security forces at the weekend, but the
    rebels said they had nothing to do with it.

    The accusations underscored the deep mistrust between
    the sides as a hobbling peace process in the world's top
    cocoa grower enters a delicate stage, with rebels due to
    begin registration for a long-delayed disarmament scheme on
    July 31.

    Agboville's streets were largely deserted as government
    soldiers armed with rocket launchers patrolled among
    smashed up cars and went from door to door checking
    identity papers.

    Groups of pro-government Young Patriots armed with
    machetes and rifles set up checkpoints around the town,
    where up to 2,000 prisoners escaped when a jail was
    attacked in the weekend chaos.






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