Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo called on his supporters to end days of violent street protests in the government-held south, telling protesters to go home and asking fearful workers to return their jobs.

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.

UN peacekeepers battled attackers today before withdrawing from a western Ivory Coast town along with military observers and other UN staff.