[Excerpt: "It is because of the security situation, which is deteriorating. It is about the rhetoric, which is more virulent, and the attack by the militias in the west who are building up trouble," he said, referring to an assault on rebel positions by pro-government militiamen at the end of February....There are around 146 Britons registered in Ivory Coast, the Web site said. Anti-French riots last November triggered an exodus of some 8,000 Westerners, mainly French.]
http://64.236.16.116/2005/WORLD/africa/03/31/ivory.embassy.ap/index.html UK shuts Ivory Coast embassy Thursday, March 31, 2005 Posted: 7:46 PM EST (0046 GMT) ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (Reuters) -- Britain is shutting its embassy in Ivory Coast and advising its citizens to leave the West African country as fears grow of a fresh outbreak of hostilities there, the Foreign Office Web site says. "This decision is mainly due to the uncertain security situation and our inability to protect staff or British nationals should there be another outbreak of violence," the UK minister for Africa, Chris Mullin, said in a statement posted on the Web site. Ivory Coast has been divided in two since an attempt to oust President Laurent Gbagbo in September 2002 grew into civil war, with rebels seizing the northern half of the country. A 2003 French-brokered peace accord has failed to reunify the world's top cocoa grower and violence has flared in the past few months, casting a serious pall over the reconciliation process. "We suggest that our citizens here think very carefully about whether they want to stay in Ivory Coast," David Coates, the British ambassador in the West African country's main city Abidjan, told Reuters. "It is because of the security situation, which is deteriorating. It is about the rhetoric, which is more virulent, and the attack by the militias in the west who are building up trouble," he said, referring to an assault on rebel positions by pro-government militiamen at the end of February. There are around 146 Britons registered in Ivory Coast, the Web site said. Anti-French riots last November triggered an exodus of some 8,000 Westerners, mainly French. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan warned last week that the situation in Ivory Coast could "spin out of control". Peace talks between the main players in the crisis are due to begin on Sunday in Pretoria, but few expect a breakthrough. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. enditem ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
