DR Congo president to pay state visit to South Africa
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Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila will hold talks with his counterpart Thabo Mbeki during a state visit to South Africa this week, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
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Central African Republic President Francois Bozize Friday said his country would soon open its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, closed since 2002 due to civil war there.
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Indian President Abdul Kalam arrived in Cape Town for a four-day state visit that will celebrate the special relationship between South Africa and the first country to sever ties with the apartheid regime.
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ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST - South Africa&#39;s president flew to Ivory Coast to try to quell the violence between government forces, French troops and civilians that has wounded more than 600 and killed at least 20.
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The chairman of the African Union is due to arrive in Kenya to try to end the country's political crisis.
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NAIROBI  - Presidents Omar el-Beshir of Sudan and Thabo Mbeki of South Africa are due to arrive in the Kenyan town of Naivasha to witness the signing of the last accords paving the way for the conclusion of a final peace agreement in southern Sudan.
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Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki will fly Friday to Kenyan capital Nairobi to witness the initial signing of the peace agreement between the Sudanese government and Sudan
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South African President Thabo Mbeki arrives in Ivory Coast seeking to resolve the country's crisis.
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A statue of the notorious former Belgian colonial king Leopold II is re-erected in the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin   arrived in South Africa on Tuesday, starting a historic two-day   visit on Tuesday which will see Russia stepping up investment   in the country.
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela has agreed to visit London in February to help jumpstart London's proposal for a "new Marshall Plan" to help ease African nations' chronic poverty, the British media reported.
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South Africa will use its presidency of the UN Security Council in March to push for the organisation to pay for African Union peacekeeping operations, the deputy foreign minister said Friday.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki visits Sudan for talks on Darfur and peace  prospects in the south.
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The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has begun his first visit to the volatile east of the country since coming to power in 2001.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 15 (IPS) - Louis Michel, the European Union's aid chief,  will urge that the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda seek a  peaceful solution to their problems when he visits East Africa  this week.
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DR Congo President Joseph Kabila embarks on his first trip to the volatile east of the country.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast  - South African President  Thabo Mbeki said Sunday he was ready to make concrete proposals  to revive a peace process in Ivory Coast after visiting the  rebel-held north of the country on a mediation mission.