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Foreigners fleeing Ivory Coast chaos UN postpones sanctions vote

AP, AFP, Reuters, Abidjan
Western nations launched one of the largest evacuations of Africa's post-independence era Wednesday as foreigners fled chaos in this former French colony. Peacekeeping soldiers in boats plucked trapped expatriates from the banks of lagoons.
France commandeered commercial airliners and other nations scrambled military jets to fly out thousands of foreigners after attacks on civilians and peacekeepers. Violence erupted after government forces renewed attacks on rebels, ending a more than one-year ceasefire in the country’s civil war.
Some 8-13 French nationals were flown to Paris from Abidjan, the main city in the world’s top cocoa grower, after supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo chased the expatriates from their homes.
"I don’t have a job any more or a house ... They took the bath, the furniture and electrical wires, everything,” said Bruno Regis, at the airport with his wife and three children.
More than 2,200 French and other foreign nationals have been sheltering in French and UN bases in Abidjan after crowd violence exploded on Saturday.
Angry mobs went on the rampage after the French army wiped out most of the West African nation's small fleet of military aircraft in retaliation for the bombing of a French base.
Sixty-four people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded in several days of anti-French mob violence that swept through the main Ivory Coast city Abidjan, an adviser to the president said Wednesday.
"This toll, which is not definitive, represents the sum of the information collected from emergency organisations," Alain Toussaint told AIT
The UN Security Council put off a vote on possible sanctions against Ivory Coast until Monday, after African nations asked to give mediators more time to resolve the coun-
try's political crisis.
The council had been set to adopt a resolution Wednesday giving the divided nation's government and rebels 30 days to implement a stalled peace accord or face an arms embargo and other measures.
Nine French peacekeepers and an American civilian died in a government air attack late last week, prompting the French to destroy Ivory Coast's tiny air force.
The retaliation sparked violence by loyalist youths, who took to the streets waving machetes, iron bars and clubs and attacking white expatriates.
On Wednesday, the US Embassy and others sent escorts into the city, rescuing Americans, Canadians, Spaniards and others. Spain, Belgium and Italy sent military cargo planes to aid in the evacuations. French officials said three jets with space for about 250 people each would run shuttles to Paris and to Dakar, Senegal, likely for days.