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...ABIDJAN: Homeward Bound Fearing racial violence in Gabon, migrant workers are fleeing by ship to this Ivory Coast port. Beset by recession and unemployment, Gabon in December cracked down on its 75,000 foreign workers by introducing a nationality-based fee scale for work permits. The fees range from $1,520 for Mauritanians and $1,160 for Malians down to $95 for French or U.S. nationals. Foreigners must pay up or leave by Feb. 15. With petitions signed by thousands of unemployed Gabonese who threaten to ``kill and burn'' illegal immigrants, western and central Africans are spending their savings...
...Peace will accommodate 2,000 fewer worshipers than St. Peter's. The Yamoussoukro basilica is the dazzling centerpiece of a building boom launched by President Felix Houphouet-Boigny to carve a modern capital out of the rain forest, 135 miles from the coast and the urban center of Abidjan, the former capital...
...ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast--A group led by President Thomas Sankara's chief adviser declared him a "a traitor to the revolution" yesterday and seized the government, the West African nation's official radio announced...
...Popular Front of the 15th of October" seized the government to "halt the restoration of neo-colonialism being undertaken by the traitor to the revolution," the radio said in a broadcast monitored in Abidjan...
...novice, passing the manuscript of his first story around the BBC staff room to get comments from older, wiser associates. By contrast, the Naipaul we meet in the Ivory Coast has become a self-assured world traveler who feels confident attributing poor service at an Abidjan restaurant to his suspicion that the European manager is off for the day, prompting the busboys to return to their "African" ways. Thirty years later, Naipaul is cynical, fazed, pessimistic about the chances that a primitive culture will ever be able to fully join the modern world...