Angola Denies Aiding Cote d'Ivoire in Fighting Rebels

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Angola Denies Aiding Cote d'Ivoire in Fighting Rebels

The Angolan government on Tuesday denied assisting the government of Cote d'Ivoire to fight the rebels.

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The Angolan government on Tuesday denied assisting the government of Cote d'Ivoire to fight the rebels.

According to an official in the president's office, Angola denied a news report that Luanda had supplied the Cote d'Ivoire government with armored cars in its fight against rebellious army units.

He also denied that Angola had flown armored vehicles to Abidjan, capital of Abidjan.

Some reports said on Monday that Angolan armored carshad arrived at Abidjan airport Sunday, with one Soviet-built personnel-carrier breaking down on its way into the city.

Since the rebellion broke out on Sept. 19 in Cote d'Ivoire, both Angola and Cote d'Ivoire have repeatedly denied allegations that Luanda was aiding Cote d'Ivoire's President Laurent Gbagbo's forces.

The whole country of Cote d'Ivoire was under a curfew, which was expected to last until Oct. 21 as the conflict between the government troops and the rebel forces continue.

The uprising has plunged the world's largest cocoa-producing country into its worst crisis since its independence from France in 1960 and has claimed hundreds of lives and injured thousands ofpeople.

The outbreak of violent rebellion in the once-peaceful west African country has brought huge threat to economic revival and political integration in the African continent.

Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema late Monday called on Gbagbo to sign a ceasefire the rebels had agreed to sign and said a military solution was impossible.

France, the west African country's former colonial ruler, also urged the Cote d'Ivoire government to sign a ceasefire, saying that it was worried by the situation in the troubled country.

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