Ivory Coast land disputes threaten new violence as war refugees return


  • World
  • Thursday, 09 Jun 2016

An Ivorian soldier patrols amid houses abandoned during fighting in 2011 in the village of Fete, Ivory Coast May 21, 2016. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

FETE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Stepping off a river ferry onto the soil of his native Ivory Coast for the first time since he fled civil war five years ago, Innocent Weley Nonmah left behind the harsh life of a refugee and an Ebola epidemic that prolonged his family's exile.

But coming home he had a new worry: that his five hectares of farmland might have been occupied by members of a rival ethnic group.

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