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Hundreds of thousands in new anti-French protest in Ivory Coast.
(From Agence France Presse)
Hundreds of thousands of youths took to the streets of Abidjan in a new protest against a French-brokered deal to end a rebel war, a day after Paris urged its nationals to leave after days of riots.
An arterial expressway along Abidjan's Ebrie lagoon was filled with thousands of whistle-blowing members from the volatile Young Patriots movement backing President Laurent Gbagbo.
The slogan-shouting marchers, many of their faces streaked with white in traditional war paint, made their way to the city's downtown Plateau quarter where the president's office is located from several points in the city.
Several sported the Ivorian flag on their clothes, caps or rosettes, and others waved it. A few dogs trotted along with the flag tied around their necks.
The protest comes amid mounting international pressure on Gbagbo to implement the accord announced last weekend to end a four-month conflict that has split the world's leading cocoa producer in half.
Rebels claim he gave them the defence and interior ministry portfolios, but Gbagbo told the youth movement on his return that it was but a set of "proposals."
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