Spain, Algeria hold talks on Western Sahara
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Spain and Algeria said Tuesday that they support the Baker Plan on the disputed Moroccan-occupied territory of Western Sahara.
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The European Union&#39;s chief of foreign affairs is travelling to Ethiopia and Sudan for talks on the troubled Darfur region. Javier Solana is travelling to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to meet African Union (AU) officials.
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On a landmark visit to Morocco the Spanish king calls for a just settlement for Western Sahara.
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The Spanish government will open direct contact with armed Basque separatist group ETA in mid-August in the push for peace in the northern Spanish region.
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Foreign ministers from the Arab world met with leaders from the West on Saturday at a conference dedicated to advancing political change in this region.
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Morocco and the Polisario independence movement began a round of talks on Western Sahara on Tuesday amid Polisario threats of renewed conflict and doubts that the negotiations would yield results.
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Spain welcomed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for an official visit Monday, joining France in rolling out the red carpet for the former pariah who is now seeking reconciliation with the West.
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Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said there was "tremendous hope" for reviving the moribund Middle East process after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
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The Spanish government has begun airing emotional television adverts across West Africa as part of its attempts to combat illegal immigration. The $1.4m media campaign is to run for six weeks and has begun in Senegal. The aim of the campaign is to discourage potential migrants from attempting the dangerous 12-day voyage by boat to the Canary Islands. "My son left ... and we haven't heard from him in eight months," a distraught Senegalese woman says in one advert.  It then cuts to a boy lying face down on the rocks, apparently drowned.  In the past two years Spain has signed co-operation and repatriation agreements with Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea, Mali and Ghana.
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The Spanish prime minister has called for an international effort to resolve cultural and religious differences between the Western and Muslim world.
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The Basque separatist group ETA and Spanish officials have been holding secret talks at an undisclosed location in Norway to prepare for official peace negotiations, Norwegian television reports.Comment
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Spain's prime minister met with the president of the Basque region Wednesday to discuss efforts to defeat the armed separatist group ETA, which announced an end to its cease-fire earlier this month.
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The latest round of U.N.-led peace talks between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front ended in stalemate Wednesday, with the two sides agreeing to try again in March to resolve a 32-year dispute for control of Western Sahara.
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The Spanish and Basque leaders meet to discuss controversial plans for greater independence.
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The European Commission and Arab League hold talks in the region in a bid to improve security in Darfur.
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ABUJA : African Union mediators met officials of the Sudanese government ahead of crucial talks on the key issue of restoring security in the war-torn western Darfur region.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Sudanese government and rebels delegates met today for talks to resolve the crisis in western Darfur a week before a UN deadline expires for the government to disarm the mostly Arab pro-government militias terrorizing the region.