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Evacuations begin in Ivory Coast

ABIDJAN (Ivory Coast): France and the United Nations on Wednesday began evacuating thousands of French and other expatriates trapped at homes, U.N. offices and a French military base during four days of rampages targeting French citizens and troops in the West African nation. France alone expected to fly out between 4,000 to 8,000 of its citizens from across Ivory Coast — potentially the majority of the 14,000 French still in the former French colony, a French official said. ``It is on a voluntary basis. We are not going to evacuate all our French citizens because they are too 1962many,'' the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Aid workers, businesspeople and long time residents of the former French colony huddled at U.N. agencies, many of them rescued from their homes by French troops amid looting and burning. — AP

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