UN predicts 100,000 could flee I. Coast turmoil (AFP)

Written on January 31, 2011 by Editor - Political News

Supporters of incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo block a convoy of UN peacekeepers on January 24 in Abidjan. The number of refugees fleeing Ivory Coast's political turmoil could triple to over 100,000 in three months amid reports of cholera in the troubled nation's main city, the United Nations said.(AFP/Issouf Sanogo)AFP - The number of refugees fleeing Ivory Coast's political turmoil could triple to over 100,000 in three months amid reports of cholera in the troubled nation's main city, the United Nations said.



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