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Two irregular loyalist ivorian troopers, one with a scrounged helmet and armed with a vintage Second World War Russian PPS-43 submachine-gun, the other with an FN FAL assault rifle. |
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Two French commando soldiers posing with a group of FANCI troops. |
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A group of ivorian loyalist troops. The uniforms and armaments are all items scrounged from various corners of the country. |
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A FANCI soldier demonstrates the stance during the launch of an RPG-7 rocket. This seems to be one of the more modern launcher tubes, equipped with an optical sighting device rather than just plain "iron" sights. |
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Another two FANCI soldiers with the RPG-7. The one at the rear seems to be wearing a helmet fitted with some sort of a decorative effect at the top. |
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A scene at a typical ivorian checkpoint - armed irregular loyalist ivorian soldiers causing more mayhem than calm, often necessitating heated negotiations using mobile phones with those in charge. |
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The FANCI are invariably armed with hand-me-downs from the French Army: here the relatively modern ERC-90 Sagaie is flanked by the ancient AML-60 armoured car. |