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News: West Africa, Four more killed, three hurt in ethnic clashes in Ivory Coast (705 words) |
 | The residents told AFP the four killed overnight were members of the Dioula ethnic group, which was blamed for sparking the latest upsurge in violence with a raid on the Guere people last Wednesday. |
| Residents said two sisters of the Sidibe family and one of their uncles had been killed by a militia related to the Guere in one Dioula district, Latif, and another sister was abducted. |
| The attacks were the latest in a series since April which has raised tension in the rich cocoa-growing regions of the divided country and sparked fears for a fragile truce between government forces and rebels. |
| afrol News - Côte d'Ivoire peace threatened, again (577 words) |
| The perpetrators, commonly believed to be from the northern Dioula people, killed 41 people and wounded 61 on the outskirts of the major cocoa marketing town. |
| Armed groups of Guérés and Dioulas are engaging in revenge attacks. |
| The farming Guéré people has for decades felt its lands were occupied by foreigners growing cocoa and the Dioula - cousins of the Mandinka from Guinea and Senegal - a Muslim minority people controlling much of the town's trade a cattle raising. |
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