This news from the Ivory Coast: Life appears to be returning to normal in Ivory Coast following last week’s largely bloodless coup. French officials say Ivory Coast’s ousted president left the country yesterday. He went to Togo, but officials say he’ll likely leave in a few days for a destination that has yet to be announced. Meantime, people in the commercial capital of Abidjan are busily putting their lives back together after three days of rioting. There’s been no mass opposition to the military junta ruling the West African nation. The junta’s leader, General Robert Guéï, promises to restore democracy, he says, after a transition period. And the junta says it will draft a new constitution.