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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:34 pm

News just in as I type.
Cote d'Ivoire have closed their borders.

This is why...

Quote:

Supporters of Alassane Ouattara have surrounded the main city Abidjan and are threatening battle unless Laurent Gbagbo drops his bid to hang on to the country’s presidency. Arms fire could be heard in the city on Thursday night.

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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:54 pm

expect the corresponding scam email any time soon

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:37 pm

My Ivorian Lad left for Ghana last Tuesday. His IP referred still to Ivory Coast but the mobile number was Ghanian while he claimed to be around the border. I'm not sure where he is now and I've been too busy to call him. At least he hasn't been on Messenger. He's been sending me BBC articles about the events unfolding. Nice service. Smile

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:40 am

I was using the situation there as an excuse as to why a package couldn't get to Abidjan. I haven't heard from that lad in weeks now though....

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:19 am

^^ My Ivorian lads are also quiet but they drop me a line from time to time to keep me up with things happening around there.

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:25 am

I haven't heard from my Ivorian lad in over a week, and he usually sends me a few e-mails a day. I suspect that either he's been unable to get to a cafe or that something's happened to him. I'm ok with either, but I definitely feel for the many non-scamming Ivorians who are being wounded or killed.

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:52 pm

I wrote to my Ivorian Lad that I've been trying to call him many times. The truth is quite the opposite because I haven't called him even once. He replied:

Quote:

my phone was having battle problem but now i think you can call me

At least he is alive and still scamming.

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:42 pm

I finally got a lad who traveled cross a country border. Unfortunately, it wasn't of my coaxing:

Quote:

Well my name is Grace Agozi from ivory coast capital city Abidjan west Africa but do to the present condition of my country Cote d'Ivoire in our political crisis that make us on comfortable,please are want you peoples of my members in the church to help me that is why are contact you peoples but i thank God that i am not among the dead once, As we have lost a lot of peoples in this matter.

Now i am in Accra Ghana as a political refuge, willing to relocate to any country that i find a nice and honest one that will care for me as my family and all the rest of my life.

The IP's do indeed confirm the move...

Trophy Videos · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:45 pm

^^ His phone is having a "battle problem?" Is it shot full of holes?
Nice job, having him work giving you news updates.

What a mess there, in IC. Pray for the violence to end soon.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:48 am

Some pictures of the "good guys" here.

Confused

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:09 am

^^^ It's gone. Sad

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:16 am

^

Try this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374091/Ivory-Coast-civil-war-Steely-stares-frontline-soldiers-good-guys.html

Warning: it's not exactly a quality newspaper although these pictures are fine.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:56 pm

Loved the saran wrap around the clips/magazines in the first photo and later in another.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:52 pm

Amid the AK-47s and RPG-7s are double-barrelled shotguns, home-made guns, and at least one WWII-era bolt-action rifle... Bit of a motley crowd...