Ivory Coast: Civil war provokes ethnic conflict in southern cocoa villages

During the day, the unpaved roads connecting dozens of villages in this cocoa-growing region of southern Cote d'Ivoire are full of farmers and cocoa buyers. But at night, when the red dust has settled and the roads are deserted, the self defence committees come out to stand guard. The civil war has not entirely destroyed the tightly-knit social fabric that helped spawn Cote d'Ivoire's wealth, but it has certainly damaged it badly.