Mutineers block more than 200 trucks outside Ivory Coast’s Bouake

Mutinous soldiers hold an RPG rocket launcher inside a military camp in Ivory Coast's central second city Bouake on Monday. (AFP / ISSOUF SANOGO)

BOUAKE, Ivory Coast: More than 200 commercial trucks were stranded on the roadside after mutinous soldiers sealed off the southern entrance to Ivory Coast’s second-biggest city, Bouake, on Monday, Reuters witnesses said.
The army said on Sunday that it had launched an operation “to re-establish order” amid the four-day revolt over bonus payments. (Reporting by Ange Aboa)