French troops in Abidjan mourn over the coffin of a fallen comrade
French intelligence services thwarted a plot last week to assassinate Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, and the plot's aftermath is roiling the strife-torn west African nation. Scores of Ivorians including senior members of the country's military and police forces were arrested last week in the commercial capital, Abidjan, after France said it had apprehended a group preparing to leave Paris to stage a coup against Gbagbo. The band of eight French and Ivorian nationals was led by Ibrahim Coulibaly a renegade Ivory Coast army soldier who spearheaded a successful 1999 putsch, and was involved in a rebellion last...
