900km tour of Côte d'Ivoire to set in motion the World March

Thanks to funding from the Ministry of Finance a team of 13 intrepid World March coordinators set out to tour the country in a week to publicise the World March and put in place a programme of events to celebrate the March as it passes through the country in November.

Armed with 2080 prospectuses and a list of contacts in each of the cities, the group carried out an exhausting series of bus journeys to Yamoussoukro, Daloa, San Pedro, Agboville and Adzopé.

The World March will start simultaneously on the 2nd of October with events in all of these 5 cities, then another tour of the country will take place to raise consciousness of the need for peace through nonviolence.

The World March will be officially launched to the public in the country on the 1st of August with a concert in an Abidjan stadium. 30 artists, singers and comedians will take part together with speeches by dignitaries and representatives of NGOs, etc. Before the concert there will be a symbolic march through the city to raise awareness of the WM. The launch will be publicised for free on national TV and radio stations.

Fortuné Kouadio, World March representative in Côte d'Ivoire said, "We would like and we would wish that representatives of the World March from Togo, Benin, Mali, Burkina and Ghana will come to this great event in Côte d'Ivoire to speak on this day. It will be an event for the whole of West Africa."