Media Change Message to Calls for Calm
Radio and television messages that stirred up mob anger against foreigners in Ivory Coast have given way to calls urging people to keep calm and return to work, a U.N. spokesman said.
The United Nations feared that the original messages -- which included images of people purportedly wounded in clashes with French troops -- would lead to increased violence.
Mobs have rioted across Ivory Coast since former colonial ruler France destroyed the country’s air force Nov. 6, after Ivorian jets bombed a French base, killing nine soldiers and an American aid worker.
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