keywords: evacuations ivory africa airlift france
text: Number of foreign evacuations from Ivory Coast top 5,000: French &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt; ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (CP) - With final calls for boarding, France on Monday was shutting down one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa, an airlift that flew 5,000-plus westerners and others from violence pitting France against its former 