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title: "Shots fired by rebel soldiers at military HQ in I.Coast"
description: "Rebel soldiers surrounded the army headquarters in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan on Friday and fired shots into the air, an AFP journalist said."
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# Shots fired by rebel soldiers at military HQ in I.Coast

> Rebel soldiers surrounded the army headquarters in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan on Friday and fired shots into the air, an AFP journalist said.

By AFP · Published 12 May 2017, 15:03 SAST

## Content

Sporadic gunfire had rung out overnight in the country's second city of Bouake, just hours after national television broadcast a ceremony in which a soldier presented as a spokesman for 8,400 former rebels said they wished to apologise to President Alassane Ouattara for a mutiny in January. DM