Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Soldiers in Ivory Coast accept deal to end a five-day mutiny over pay



    The government offered the mutineers an immediate bonus payment of five million CFA francs for the 8,400 mutineers and a further two million CFA francs at the end of June.

   They had previously rejected a settlement put forward by the government on Monday night.
   Since Friday, soldiers have been shooting in the air and setting up road blocks, protesting their anger at the scrapping of a deal agreed in January to give them back pay and bonuses.

 

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