18 to face trial over 2016 Côte d'Ivoire tourist complex attack
Soldiers patrol the beach in Grand-Bassam on March 15, 2016, a day after gunmen attacked the Côte d’Ivoire resort town popular with Ivorians and Westerners, killing 14 civilians and two soldiers. PHOTO | ISSOUF SANOGO | AFP
Eighteen people accused of involvement in one of West Africa's bloodiest attacks by extremists — a machine-gun assault on a beach resort in 2016 that left 19 dead — go on trial in Côte d’Ivoire on Wednesday.
