Continuing its provincial forums in Côte d'Ivoire, the United Nations this weekend mobilized the inhabitants of Touba, the Bafing regional capital, to support the peace accord to reunite the West African country that has been split between the Government-controlled south and the Forces Nouvelles-held north since 2002.
As with their compatriots elsewhere, the future of the country resides in their own hands, UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) spokesman Hamadoun Touré told an overflow crowd at the meeting, the first such event since last week's "flame of peace" ceremony at which President Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, the Forces Nouvelles leader, set fire to stockpiled weapons to officially launch the disarmament process.
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