Ivory Coast Port Calm Again After Unrest Halts Cocoa Exports
- Gendarmes fired shots, disrupted operations at Abidjan port
- Four soldiers killed in earlier unrest, government says
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Calm returned to Ivory Coast’s biggest port after disruptions caused by gendarmes halted cocoa shipments from the world’s largest producer of the beans.
Operations at the port in the commercial capital, Abidjan, normalized after the implementation of security measures to quell unrest during the second day of renewed upheavals among military personnel, the port authority said in an e-mailed statement on Wednesday.