| February 18, 2008 | - Women in Ivory Coast were using creams and injections to enlarge their buttocks in reaction to the craze for the big-bottom dance, or Bobaraba.
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BBCnews.com
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| October 8, 2007 | -
Ivory Coast was fighting chronic lateness, known as “African time,” with a contest that offered a $60,000 villa as its grand prize. The winner, legal adviser Narcisse Aka, is known by his colleagues as “Mr. White Man's Time” and said that his punctuality made him feel like “an extra-terrestrial.”
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Reuters
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| October 17, 2006 | - More than 4,500 tons of polluted material, residue from the toxic sludge dumped in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in August, have been collected since a clean-up effort began in September.
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AFP via KeepMedia
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| July 9, 2005 | - Both factions in the Ivory Coast war agreed to disarm by October.
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Reuters
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| June 1, 2005 | - Unidentified men attacked two villages in Ivory Coast, killing at least forty-one people.
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Reuters
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| April 6, 2005 | - Both sides in Ivory Coast's civil war signed a peace accord.
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Globe and Mail
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| November 11, 2004 | - The Christian-dominated government of the Ivory Coast continued to battle a Muslim insurgency.
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CBN News
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| March 26, 2004 | - Political violence continued in Kosovo, Gaza, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Syria; there was unrest in Haiti, where armed gangs continued to terrorize the people; in Congo, where the government put down a coup attempt; and in France, where firefighters battled police during a strike over retirement benefits. The firefighters threw garbage cans, firecrackers, and smoke bombs; the police fired tear gas.
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New York Times
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| February 26, 2004 | -
Ivory Coast confirmed a new case of polio; tests confirmed that the polio originated in Nigeria, which has resisted vaccination programs for religious reasons.
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Reuters
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| January 21, 2003 | -
Fighting continued in the Ivory Coast.
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