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<\/span><\/figure>\nThis has raised fears of a resurgence of the violence seen during Ivory Coast’s 10-year civil war, which ended in 2011.<\/p>\n
Many of the mutineers in January are former rebels who joined the army after the conflict.<\/p>\n
They had helped President Alassane Ouattara take office in 2010 after his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo refused to accept defeat in elections.<\/p>\n
They first launched a munity in January and forced the government to pay them about $8,000 (\u00a36,200) each in bonuses which they said was owed to them.<\/p>\n
They were due to receive a further payment this month and several thousand mutineers were unhappy they were not consulted when on Thursday, a spokesman for the group said they would drop their demands for the remaining money.<\/p>\n
The government has said it will not negotiate with the disgruntled soldiers.<\/p>\n
Ivory Coast is the world’s biggest cocoa producer, and it is the West African state’s main foreign currency earner.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Heavy gunfire has erupted in Ivory Coast’s two biggest cities, as a mutiny in the army enters its fourth day. The mutineers blocked roads outside a barracks in an affluent neighbourhood of Abidjan, the commercial capital, a BBC reporter in the city says. Troops loyal to the government are heading for the second city, Bouak\u00e9, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[241],"yoast_head":"\n