Ivory Coast’s one and only military helicopter has just crashed. It was the only survivor when the French air force destroyed the rest in retaliation for the government forces ‘accidentally’ killing 9 French soldiers.

At Abidjan airport, along with the presidential plane that still has a big red plastic tarpaulin taped over the gaping rocket hole in its side, we see the helicopter wrecks regularly as we march out (‘single file only!’) to the UN flights we use to go to the west. If ever there was a memento mori it is this.

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