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UN troops back after riots
23/03/2006 22:08  - (SA)  

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  • Abidjan - UN peacekeepers have started returning to the west of war-divided Ivory Coast after abandoning their bases during anti-UN riots in January, the mission's military spokesperson said on Thursday.

    Several hundred blue helmets fled four bases during the riots across the government-controlled south, after shooting dead five youths who broke into their base in the town of Guiglo and tried to steal weapons.

    UN military spokesperson Omar El Khadir said the redeployment to the nearby town of Toulepleu, near the Liberian border, had gone smoothly despite armed local militias having said they would oppose the peacekeepers' return.

    "Contacts (with Ivorian authorities) enabled the redeployment to take place smoothly.

    "The population are generally in favour of it," he told reporters at a weekly news conference at the mission's Abidjan headquarters.

    He said troops from Bangladesh and Benin had returned to the base.

    About 7 000 UN blue helmets and 4 000 French peacekeepers separate rebel troops, who have held the north of the country since a 2002-03 civil war, from government troops in the south.




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