A DUTCH journalist asked an Amsterdam court yesterday to convict him for eating chocolate, saying by doing so he was benefiting from child slavery on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast.

FOUR pro-government protesters were killed in western Ivory Coast yesterday when UN peacekeepers opened fire to repel an attack on their base in a third day of anti-UN riots.

FRENCH armoured vehicles took up positions near the home of Ivory Coast’s president yesterday, and thousands of his supporters marched on the site, fearing an attempt to oust him as France clamped down on violence in its former West African colony.