No peace in Liberia until Côte d'Ivoire disarms

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Liberia's security will remain precarious until concentrated efforts are made to disarm next-door Côte d'Ivoire, General Daniel Opande, the Kenyan military commander for the UN mission in the west African state, said.

"I can assure you that at the end of our mission in Liberia, we will have collected all the arms, but the country will remain at risk if in Ivory Coast the guns are still in the hands of the wrong people," said Opande.

Fighters and arms have slipped easily across the forested border since late 2002 to help Gbagbo put down a rebellion in the west of Côte d'Ivoire and recruit reinforcements to wage the second of two civil wars to pummel Liberia since 1989.

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