Ivory Coast evicts illegal workers from forests Rocket launchers in hand, bulldozers at the ready - the Ivorian government has sent in the army to regain control of the protected Niégré forest, and is in the process of evicting thousands of people who illegally exploit it. But those people have for years relied on the forest for their livelihoods. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.REFILING this natural sound version of an AFPTV report following a study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, on the State and evolution of the African rainforests between 1990 and 2010. It shows that deforestation in Africa's Congo Basin rainforest slows. West Africa and Madagascar exhibit a much higher deforestation rate than the Congo Basin, for example, three times higher for West Africa and nine times higher for Madagascar, according to the study.