Gamma for Paris Match
07 October, 2002
A rebel fighter kills a man suspected of looting a fan and sports bag from an abandoned house outside the town of Bouaké. Unrest had broken out in Ivory Coast some weeks earlier, in September. A military mutiny among troops unhappy at being demobilized had developed into a full-scale national rebellion. Previously, Ivory Coast had been seen as a bulwark of stability in a conflict-torn region.
