Africa sets its sights on the United Nations
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They would represent the impoverished and underdeveloped of the world at a highly influential forum - the United Nations Security Council.
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NEW YORK - President Bush, trying to soften his image overseas as a heavy-handed unilateralist, is using his annual address to the United Nations to offer up a brighter vision of a planet with less hunger, disease and oppression.    Exactly six weeks before Election Day, Bush is equally concerned about his audience at home...
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UNITED NATIONS  - UN Security Council ambassadors departed for a high-profile Africa visit, hoping to bring an end to two separate wars in Sudan despite internal bickering over how to do so.
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DURBAN, South Africa  - Developing countries have pledged to band together to force the West to help tackle their problems, ranging from poverty to reform of the United Nations.
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UNITED NATIONS : UN Security Council nations met to look for common ground on a disputed US draft resolution pressing Sudan to rein in the Arab militias behind the bloodshed in Darfur.
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Leaders of the African Union begin a three-day summit here Sunday focused on plans to forge a confederation of states that can help the world&#39;s poorest continent exercise greater clout on the world stage.
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The United Nations said on Wednesday that African Union monitors should be deployed in Darfur refugee camps and should also monitor police to help in building trust with the local community.
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Some 50,000 Africans in 28 countries give their verdict on how they are governed in a United Nations survey.
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African leaders have voiced support for proposed UN sanctions against both the Ivory Coast government and rebel groups. African Union leaders from Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Burkina
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The United Nations is asking Europe to send more troops and military support to the world&#39;s hot spots, particularly in Africa.
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The African Union and the United Nations will chair talks in Libya to seek a "road map" for peace in Darfur.
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The United Nations spent $18 billion on peacekeeping missions around the globe in the past five years &#151; mainly in Africa &#151; but not enough on preventing conflicts from erupting in the first place.
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NATO officials say they are considering a United Nations request to support a possible African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region.
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President Bush, trying to soften his image overseas as a heavy-handed unilateralist, is using his annual address to the United Nations to offer up a brighter vision of a planet with less hunger, disease and oppression.
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The United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, has appealed to the European Union to play a bigger role in UN peacekeeping operations.
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African leaders were due to declare a joint vision Tuesday on how their continent should be governed at the end of a summit focused on forging a closer union which exposed rifts over the pace of change.
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Staking its prestige on Sudan&#39;s troubled peace process, the UN Security Council met away from its New York home for the first time in 14 years on Thursday to try to end two decades of war in Africa&#39;s biggest country.