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Cote d'Ivoire on Monday evacuated 103 of its citizens from Bangui, the Central African Republic capital.
A Pan African News Agency (PANA) report said the Ivoriens were received at the Abidjan Airport by Cote d'Ivoire's Foreign Minister, Charles Diby Koffi, and his colleague for African Integration and the Diaspora, Ally Coulibaly.
The agency report stated that another batch of 100 people were expected to arrive in Abidjan on Tuesday.
PANA said the evacuees, mostly born in the Central African Republic, returned to their homeland on a special flight of the national carrier, Air Cote d'Ivoire, chartered by the Cote d'Ivoire government.
Hamed N'guessan, one of the evacuees, said the country of his "childhood" was on the verge of being ruined.
He said life has stopped in Bangui, cases of looting, rape and torture characterised the new life, but expressed happiness to find himself in Cote d'Ivoire, his country which he had never seen before.
Humanitarian sources have indicated that inter-ethnic violence between Christian militias and ex-Seleka rebels, most of whom Muslims, left at least 1,000 people dead in Bangui.
A Pan African News Agency (PANA) report said the Ivoriens were received at the Abidjan Airport by Cote d'Ivoire's Foreign Minister, Charles Diby Koffi, and his colleague for African Integration and the Diaspora, Ally Coulibaly.
The agency report stated that another batch of 100 people were expected to arrive in Abidjan on Tuesday.
PANA said the evacuees, mostly born in the Central African Republic, returned to their homeland on a special flight of the national carrier, Air Cote d'Ivoire, chartered by the Cote d'Ivoire government.
Hamed N'guessan, one of the evacuees, said the country of his "childhood" was on the verge of being ruined.
He said life has stopped in Bangui, cases of looting, rape and torture characterised the new life, but expressed happiness to find himself in Cote d'Ivoire, his country which he had never seen before.
Humanitarian sources have indicated that inter-ethnic violence between Christian militias and ex-Seleka rebels, most of whom Muslims, left at least 1,000 people dead in Bangui.
