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The trial resumes in Mali of the 46 Ivorian troops whose detention has sparked a diplomatic row between both countries. They arrive for their trial in the capital Bamako ahead of a January 1 deadline set by West African leaders for Mali to release the soldiers or face sanctions. Originally 49 had been held after they arrived at Bamako airport on July 10. Three, all women, were later freed. Those remaining, were branded by Mali's junta as "mercenaries", and charged with seeking to undermine state security. IMAGES
Abidjan, Jan 21 (EFE/EPA).- Remains of four Ivorian peacekeepers of the United Nations Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), who died in an attack by unidentified armed men, arrived in Ivory Coast for the repatriation ceremony Friday. (Camera: LEGNAN KOULA).SHOT LIST: A CEREMONY OF HANDING OVER THE REMAINS OF IVORIAN MINUSMA SOLDIERS AT A MILITARY BASE IN ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST.
Alepe (Ivory Coast), Oct 14 (EFE / EPA) .- (CAMERA: Legnan Koula) Ivory Coast faces progressive deforestation since its independence in 1960 that has made it lose 90% of its forest to be reused in the agriculture and cocoa cultivation.
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.
Rebel soldiers surround Ivory Coast's army headquarters in Abidjan, firing shots in the air just hours after a spokesman for the protesters publicly apologised for an earlier mutiny. IMAGES of soldiers near army HQ
NATO forces cross the Vistula River at Korzeniewo in Poland as part of the US-led defence alliance's Exercise Dragon 24, involving around 4,500 soldiers and almost 1,000 vehicles. Dragon 24 is itself part of Exercise Steadfast Defender 24, NATO's largest military exercise since the Cold War, which is designed to test its defences in the face of Russia's war on Ukraine. IMAGES