{"id":445812,"date":"2017-12-11T13:17:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T13:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/11\/ivory-coast-paying-mutinous-soldiers-thousands-to-quit\/"},"modified":"2017-12-11T13:17:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T13:17:29","slug":"ivory-coast-paying-mutinous-soldiers-thousands-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/11\/ivory-coast-paying-mutinous-soldiers-thousands-to-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast paying ‘mutinous’ soldiers thousands to quit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ivory Coast is to pay its soldiers 15m CFA francs ($25,500; \u00a320,000) each to leave its large and mutiny-prone army, news agency Reuters reports.<\/p>\n

The government is hoping to retire 4,400 troops \u2013 almost a fifth of its reported 25,000-strong army \u2013 by 2020, the agency said.<\/p>\n

A thousand of those will voluntarily retire by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

However, officials would not confirm exactly what the pay off would be \u2013 but Reuters and a number of other outlets report it will be more than $25,000 per soldier.<\/p>\n

This is far more than the average wage, understood to be in the region of $1,200 a year.<\/p>\n

Ivory Coast was Africa\u2019s fastest growing economy in 2016, but it suffered earlier this year after numerous uprisings by low-ranking soldiers.<\/p>\n

In May, a five-day mutiny over pay ended with the government offering thousands of soldiers almost $12,000.<\/p>\n

Many soldiers are former rebels who fought in a series of civil conflicts.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n

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