Bouake Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/bouake/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 08 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Bouake Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/bouake/ 32 32 Cote d’Ivoire mutineers expect their money today https://jjcornish.com/2017/01/cote-divoire-mutineers-expect-money-today/ Sun, 08 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/01/cote-divoire-mutineers-expect-money-today/ The streets of Ivory Coast’s second-largest city Bouake are calm and the military presence is gone, residents after a two-day soldiers’ mutiny took over the city before spreading across the country. The soldiers have not yet returned to their barracks. ends intro The mutiny began early on Friday when rogue soldiers demanding bonus pay seized […]

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]]> The streets of Ivory Coast’s second-largest city Bouake are calm and the military presence is gone, residents after a two-day soldiers’ mutiny took over the city before spreading across the country.

The soldiers have not yet returned to their barracks.

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The mutiny began early on Friday when rogue soldiers demanding bonus pay seized Bouake.

Soldiers at military camps in cities and towns across Ivory Coast, including the commercial capital Abidjan, joined the rebellion.

A deal was reached between the government and the soldiers late on Saturday.

Some mutineers briefly detained Defence Minister Alain-Richard Donwahi, who was brokering the deal, demanding to known exactly how much they would get and when.

Mutineers says they expect their money today.

They’ll get eight thousand dollars each.

Since there are  8000 of them, it will cost Africa’s fastest-growing country tens of billions of CFA francs.

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