Six killed in fresh attack on Abidjan army base

A raid on an army base in Abidjan left at least six dead yesterday, in the latest of a string of attacks targeting the military in the Ivory Coast economic capital.

President Alassane Ouattara has struggled to stabilise a country still awash with weapons and demobbed fighters, more than a year after the end of a deadly post-election crisis.

A firefight broke out at dawn around the Akouedo military camp in Abidjan’s Cocody neighbourhood, according to residents and officials who were unable to identify the attackers.