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Ivory Coast besieged

03/31/2011 6:23 pm ET A UN MI24 helicopter flies overhead in the skies above Abidjan, Ivory Coast on March 31. Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara said his fighters were 'at the gates' of Abidjan after a rapid advance aimed at unseating his rival Laurent Gbagbo. Soon after, heavy weapons fire rang out in the center of Abidjan, the West African country's main city, and Gbagbo's elite forces took positions around the presidential palace, Reuters witnesses said.