An Ivory Coast city on the front line, and afraid

Ferkessedougou sits at a major crossroad with direct routes to border crossings into Mali and Burkina Faso. [AFP]

Residents of Ferkessedougou, a commercial hub in northern Ivory Coast, are shaken by this month's brazen jihadist attack just 100 kilometres (60 miles) away -- the first assault by Islamist extremists in the country in more than four years.