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July 27, 2003
   
Cleaning up after the Ivory Coast's little civil war is getting more expensive by the day. Neighboring Burkina Faso is looking for donors to support a three-year $32 million plan to help reintegrate up to 320,000 refugees. The Burkinabe residents in Cote d'Ivoire fled over the past 10 months during a wave of persecution of Burkinabe and other West African immigrants. Burkinabe government officials claim that the real figure is closer to 500,000 and the exodus is still continuing, with convoys bringing 500 more expatriates a week. - Adam Geibel