Abidjan — Rebel soldiers in Ivory Coast said on Tuesday that they were ending a four-day mutiny which drew in troops from across the country, after reaching agreement with the government over a wages dispute. News of the deal was confirmed by a spokesman for the disgruntled troops, who said their financial demands had been met, ending a dispute which began in January. "We have found a basis for agreement. We are returning to barracks," Sergeant Cisse Fousseni told AFP, ending the latest round of unrest that began early on Friday. Another spokesman said details of the deal were "top secret" but others confirmed that the mutineers’ demands had been fully met. The mutiny, which sowed disruption across the world’s top cocoa-producing nation, resulted in soldiers firing angrily into the air and heavy gunfire in Ivory Coast’s two biggest cities, in which one person died. Heavy gunfire erupted on Monday at the country’s largest military barracks in eastern Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s economic c...
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