France, United States and other nations evacuate foreigners trapped in Ivory Coast — This is what you call your “all hell breaking loose” story. The long term net-net of this situation? Expect to pay more for chocolate.

“The government is pushing to kill white people – not just the French, all white people,” said Marie Noel Mion, rescued by French troops in a wooden boat at daybreak and waiting with hundreds of others at Abidjan’s airport for the first flight out.

In Paris, France’s Cabinet approved a decree requisitioning commercial aircraft to carry out French citizens in what was shaping up as one of the largest evacuations from Africa since the independence era.