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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.

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

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