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December 3, 2003

Around 1,000 hard line backers of the president defied a ban on public rallies and mounted a third day of protests in Abidjan. The day before, 300 riot police dispersed several hundred protesters gathered outside a French military base in Abidjan, who were calling for the former colonial power's troops to quit the country. - Adam Geibel