Fighting erupts in Ivory Coast

Heavy fighting broke out near the border with Liberia between forces backing the political rivals who both claim to be Ivory Coast’s president, panicking tens of thousands of refugees who already had fled the violence.

Saah Nyuma, the deputy director of the Liberia Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission, said he heard the sounds of explosions coming from Ivory Coast. At least one mortar shell fell on the Liberian side of the border yesterday.