ACCRA (Reuters) - Authorities in Ghana have arrested three men for allegedly trying to buy arms for a planned coup in neighbouring Ivory Coast, where a wave of violent attacks killed around 20 people last month, a local police chief said on Monday.
The Ivorian government has blamed allies of the country's former president Laurent Gbagbo, many of whom now live in exile in Ghana, of orchestrating the violence, which has raised fears of renewed unrest just a year after a civil war ended.
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