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Ivory Coast (South Africa), 2 Jul, EFE/EPA, (Camera: Legnan Koula).- The Ivory Coast is holding a ceremony, presided over by Head of State Alassane Ouattara, to pay tribute to the fourteen soldiers killed by a group of armed individuals in a mixed gendarmerie of the Armed Forces in Kafolo, Sikolo Sub-prefecture, in the northeast of Ivory Coast. FOOTAGE OF THE TRIBUTE HELD IN IVORY COAST TO THE 14 SOLDIERS KILLED.
The verdict hearing for four of the defendants begins in the trial over one of West Africa's bloodiest jihadist attacks -- a 2016 machine-gun assault on the Ivorian beach resort of Grand-Bassam that killed 19. The verdict is expected on Thursday. IMAGES
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