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Thursday, October 21, 2004 - 03:00
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Media & freedom of expression [2]
Issue Number: 
179 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Ivory Coast journalist Amadou Dagnogo, who disappeared from the rebel-held town of Bouake nearly two months ago, was flown to the commercial capital, Abidjan, yesterday by French peacekeepers. Dagnogo, the Bouake correspondent for Abidjan-based independent daily L'Inter, said he had been detained, beaten and tortured by supporters of Guillaume Soro, leader of the Forces Nouvelles (FN) rebel movement, but had escaped.

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Human Security [4]
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