Four days of violence against French troops the commercial capital, and country's largest city, Abidjan, has left over 600 wounded, and over 60 dead. So far, 8,300 French civilians have fled Ivory Coast, along with a thousand other foreigners and some 13,000 Ivorians. The government is trying to work out a way to go to war against the northern rebels without running into UN and French peacekeepers.
