Ivory Coast mediators still hoping for truce

Tuesday, October 15, 2002

BOUAFLE, Ivory Coast -- Explosions and gunfire shook a rebel-held city in a key cocoa region Monday, unsettling world markets for the product. West African mediators pushed for a truce to end the nearly monthlong conflict.

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