Israel said it would suspend arms sales to the Ivory Coast after a French request. France, which formerly ruled Ivory Coast as a colony, destroyed the African nation’s air force in retaliation for the deaths of nine French peacekeepers and an American aid worker in a government airstrike on rebels.
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