Cote D’Ivoire president fires army, police & gendarmes chiefs after mutiny

  10 January 2017    Read: 1621
Cote D’Ivoire president fires army, police & gendarmes chiefs after mutiny
Cote D’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara dismissed the heads of the army, police and gendarmes on Monday after a two-day army mutiny that spread unrest across the West African nation, according to a statement from the presidency.
Disgruntled soldiers demanding the payment of bonuses and wage increases began their revolt Friday, seizing control of Bouake, the country’s second-largest city, before troops in military camps in cities and towns across the country joined the uprising.

/Reuters/

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