UN peacekeeper killed on Ivory Coast
A UN peacekeeper was killed in a knife attack in a northern Ivory Coast rebel stronghold today, UN officials said.
The attack on the Moroccan soldier came shortly after midnight in the city of Bouake. No further details were immediately available, a UN spokesman, Renald Boismoreau, said.
Some 10,000 French and UN peace troops are guarding front lines between northern-based rebel fighters and Ivory Coast loyalist forces in the south.
Ivory Coast, the world’s largest cocoa producer, fell into civil war after a failed September 2002 coup attempt.
Peace deals have largely calmed fighting but failed to reunite the one-time French colony.
