ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast closed its border with Ghana on Friday after at least 10 people were killed in attacks on its army and police launched from Ghanaian territory, the country's interior minister said.
The attacks, in the commercial capital Abidjan late on Thursday and on a border town early on Friday, were the first since August, when near-daily raids on security forces revived fears of renewed instability a year after a brief civil war killed more than 3,000 people.
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