Soldiers launch mutinies in three Ivory Coast cities

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/ivory-coast-170106102552934.html
>West African nation's defence minister says the mutineers are demanding salary increases and payment of bonuses.

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>The mutineers seized weapons from two police stations in the country's second city, Bouake, and took up positions at its entry points, according to reports.

>Shooting has also been reported in the cities of Daloa and Korogho.

>President Alassane Ouattara convened a crisis meeting of his military chiefs, as the government entered into talks with the mutineers.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-soldiers-seize-weapons-positions-ivory-coast-city-090320165.html
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>Heavy gunfire was heard from around 2 a.m. (0200 GMT) in Bouake - a city of around a half million inhabitants in the centre of Ivory Coast - and sporadic shooting continued into the late morning.

>Bouake was the seat of a rebellion that controlled the northern half of the country from 2002 until Ivory Coast was reunited following a civil war in 2011.

>Shooting also broke out mid-morning at a military base in Daloa, the main trading hub in the western cocoa belt, and residents said soldiers, some of them masked, were patrolling the streets in 4x4s.

>Cocoa prices rose as the unrest prompted a wave of buying.
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