Great Lakes leaders promise peace
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Presidents of the Great Lakes region in Africa have signed a declaration designed bring peace to the region.
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African leaders lauded progress towards peace in the continent's powderkeg Great Lakes region, but called for more action to overcome challenges to lasting stability, security and development.
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Canada's prime minister on Sunday urged rival groups to disarm and political factions to settle differences in order for the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere to make use of international aid.
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The Great Lakes region, which has paid Africa&#39;s highest price in human lives and destruction from ethnic conflict, could soon be plunged again into wholesale war as a result of the recent massacre of 160 Congolese Tutsis in Burundi by Hutu militias.
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Key players in the search for Middle East peace have reached understanding on a plan that could lead to a comprehensive settlement.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 20 (Xinhuanet,by Cheng Zhiliang, Zhang Ran) -- Eleven countries in Africa&#39;s conflict-ridden Great Lakes region concluded here Saturday a two-day summit with the adoption of a landmark peace declaration aimedat democracy and prosperity.
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CHICAGO, June 7  /PRNewswire/ -- MWW Group (http://www.mww.com/), one of the nation's top 10 public relations firms, today announced its work with the Council of Great Lakes Governors.  The Council is a cooperative, non-partisan effort between the public and private sectors of the eight U.S.
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The U.S. Coast Guard, responding to safety and environmental concerns, said Monday it was withdrawing plans to periodically close 6,475 square kilometres of the Great Lakes for live machine-gun exercises.  The plan had been criticized by several U.S.
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Leaders of Africaâs Great Lakes Region have signed a Dar es Salaam Declaration, a blueprint to haul the troubled region out of multiple and endemic conflicts.
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CHARLOTTE, NC -- A leader for an initiative to bring peace in the Middle East visited Charlotte Friday -- the same day Yasser Arafat was buried.
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By JOHN FLESHER  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Margo Marks operates a ferry service on Lake Michigan and has nothing but respect for the Coast Guard. But she shudders at the thought of machine gun bullets whizzing over the water.
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In a crucial step heralded as a fresh start to peacemaking, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas promised Tuesday to halt all acts of violence and agreed to meet again soon to tackle the tougher issues that for decades have blocked the road to peace.
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Foreign ministers from Africa&#39;s Great Lakes nations gathered Sunday to discuss regional insecurity following weeks of fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo&#39;s eastern region.
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An environmental coalition is calling for a halt on international ships entering the U.S. Great Lakes.
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Peace building around the world is to be the theme of a speech by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in Londonderry.
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By Steve Reilly, The Sun, Port Charlotte, Fla.  Sep. 7--PUNTA GORDA -- The City Council agreed Wednesday to move forward  with future water sales to the Peace River/Manasota Regional Water Supply  Authority.
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By Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press  Dec. 19--Margo Marks was surprised when she heard in August that the Coast Guard was planning to set up live firing zones, where machine-gun bullets would fly several times a year, throughout the Great Lakes.