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Ivory Coast Mutiny Ends
The government has given into soldiers' pay demands
The government has given into soldiers' pay demands; Nigerian-Lebanese clubbers bring Afrobeats to Beirut; Uganda's president admits his security forces use torture.
(Photos: An Ivorian soldier, part of a group of soldiers sent from Bouake as reinforcements, leaves the Republican Guard in Yamoussoukro on January 17, 2017. Credit: Getty Images.)
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