Ivory Coast students riot over lost school

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Thousands of college students -- some brandishing knives, iron bars and sticks -- rioted in Abidjan on Tuesday, demanding compensation for a lost school year canceled by Ivory Coast's civil war.

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