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Bouaké
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Boua·ké  (bwäk)
A town of central Côte d'Ivoire. It was once a crossroads for caravan trade. Population: 462,000.

Bouaké (French) [bwake]
n
(Placename) a market town in S central Côte d'Ivoire. Pop.: 330 000 (1995 est.)


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The official handover took place at a ceremony in Bouake, a rebel stronghold town in central Ivory Coast, where military power in rebel territory was also turned over to forces of a joint command.
It was the biggest loss of life for the Nato-led forces in combat in more than three years, and the highest French military death toll in an attack since clashes in Bouake, Ivory Coast in 2004.
If anything, harassment of Northerners increased, and it surprised no one when in September 2002, Northern soldiers struck again, cutting the country in two, with the northern towns of Bouake and Korhogo the rebels' stronghold.
 
 
 
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