Ivory Coast mutineers free defence minister, others
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BOUAKE - Rogue soldiers allowed Ivory Coast's defence minister and dozens of others to leave a house where they had been trapped on Saturday when some mutineers appeared to reject aspects of a deal intended to end a two-day revolt, a Reuters witness said.
Those inside the house in Bouake, the country's second largest city, included a government negotiating delegation as well as the soldiers' own representatives and journalists. The Reuters reporter said that Defence Minister Alain-Richard Donwahi was en route to the city's airport.
