{"id":18972,"date":"2017-01-07T07:50:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T07:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=18972"},"modified":"2017-01-07T07:50:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T07:50:33","slug":"heavy-gunfire-heard-in-ivory-coasts-second-largest-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/heavy-gunfire-heard-in-ivory-coasts-second-largest-city.html","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Gunfire Heard in Ivory Coast&#8217;s Second-Largest City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"Justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Heavy Gunfire Heard in Ivory Coast&#8217;s Second-Largest City<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Heavy Gunfire Heard in Ivory Coast&#8217;s Second-Largest City:-<\/strong> Heavy gunfire erupted early on Saturday near the main military camp in Ivory Coast&#8217;s second largest city, Bouake, where disgruntled soldiers launched an uprising a day earlier over salaries and bonuses, a resident and a soldier said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;The shooting is very heavy right now at the 3rd Battalion. I&#8217;m nearby and I hear it like it was right next to us,&#8221; resident Konan Benoit told Reuters by telephone as gunfire could be heard on the line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The renegade soldiers have controlled the city of around a half million residents since taking up positions at key entry points early on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The army has sent reinforcements to Bouake but the defence minister said in a statement late on Friday that the government was prepared to listen to the soldiers&#8217; grievances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">It was not immediately clear what provoked the gunfire, but a member of the uprising said soldiers had seen what they considered suspicious movements outside the camp in Bouake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;This is gunfire to discourage them,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Similar mutinies also occurred in two of the West African nation&#8217;s other main cities on Friday as the movement appeared to spread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2017\/01\/07\/world\/africa\/07reuters-ivorycoast-military.html?ref=world<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/heavy-gunfire-heard-in-ivory-coasts-second-largest-city.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy Gunfire Heard in Ivory Coast&#8217;s Second-Largest City Heavy Gunfire Heard in Ivory Coast&#8217;s Second-Largest City:- Heavy gunfire erupted early on Saturday near the main military camp in Ivory Coast&#8217;s second largest city, Bouake, where disgruntled soldiers launched an uprising a day earlier over salaries and bonuses, a resident and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[10324,5251,6452,2489],"class_list":["post-18972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-breaking-news-usa","tag-latest-politics-news","tag-local-news","tag-world-news-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}