Posted: 11/19/04
Ivory Coast violence could spread
across Africa, church leader warns
By David E. Anderson
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)–Mvume Dandala, general secretary of the All Africa Conference of Churches, has warned that the violence in the Ivory Coast could spread to other parts of Africa.
Dandala made his comments as the United Nations Security Council last week imposed an immediate arms embargo on the African nation's government in the wake of its violent confrontation with France, the country's former colonial ruler.
Dandala urged African and other world leaders to continue efforts to secure peace, especially in Liberia and Sierre Leone, conflict-ridden neighbors of Ivory Coast.
“This is a commitment that other African countries and the international community should seize and hold on to very firmly,” he said.
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