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World Service,07 Mar 2011,10 mins

Ivory Coast civil war

Witness History

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In 2002, a brutal civil war broke out in Ivory Coast. It turned the once prosperous city of Abidjan into a place where African migrants and westerners all feared for their lives. Paul Welsh covered the Civil War for the BBC. He recalls the atmosphere in Abidjan and how journalists themselves were targetted.

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