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 ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Violent street protests shook southern Ivory Coast for a fourth day Thursday as supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo defied his call to return home and demanded the United Nations be punished for a deadly firefight involving its peacekeepers.
U.N. peacekeepers fired tear gas grenades to keep back hundreds of angry young men protesting outside U.N. headquarters in Abidjan, the country's main city.
Shops, schools and banks remained closed in the city center although life began returning to normal in some outlying areas after Gbagbo called late Wednesday for protesters to leave the streets and go back to their jobs.
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