African leaders ink pact to avoid bloodshed in Great Lakes region
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African leaders have a landmark two-billion-dollar (1.5-billion-euro) security and development pact to prevent further violence in the continent's Great Lakes region, one of the world's bloodiest areas.
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The country's two political rivals agreed to help ease distribution of humanitarian aid, but not to a power-sharing government.
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African leaders were struggling Tuesday to nail down an agreement on a roadmap for a closer union at the end of a summit which exposed deep rifts over how fast they should move towards integration.
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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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BUJUMBURA/UNITED NATIONS  - UN peacekeepers are scrambling to avoid new bloodshed in the volatile Great Lakes region of Africa following a massacre of Congolese refugees in western Burundi, the United Nations ...
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Kenya's feuding political leaders agreed Thursday to an immediate cessation of violence and any acts that may harm efforts to end the country's post-election crisis, according to a statement from the Ghanaian presidency, head of the African Union.
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The presidents of Congo and Rwanda could meet soon to calm renewed tensions between the neighboring countries, according to presidential aides.
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Kenya's president and opposition leader agreed on Thursday to work together with an African panel headed by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to end turmoil that has killed 500 people, the African Union said.
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Leaders of the African Union began mapping out plans to forge a closer federation of states at a summit in Ghana Sunday, acknowledging the continent&#39;s current system of governance had to improve.
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Congo's government and warring rebel and militia factions will sign a deal on Tuesday to end fighting in the country's conflict-torn east, government officials and diplomats said on Monday.
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The United States and Canada signed a declaration on Friday that outlines a plan to clean up the Great Lakes and the major waterways that feed them.
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Warring rebels and militias in  eastern Democratic Republic of Congo signed a ceasefire deal on  Wednesday aimed at ending conflict at the heart of one of the  world's most deadly humanitarian catastrophes.
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African regional leaders gather Wednesday, in Tanzania for a summit on Burundi&#39;s peace process, but the recent massacre of Congolese Tutsi in a UN refugee camp is expected to be high on the agenda.
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NAIROBI, Kenya  - Sudanese leaders signed a peace deal Sunday that - if implemented - would end Africa's longest-running conflict and transform politics in a nation which has spent 40 of the last 50 years at war with itself.
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Kenya's ruling party and opposition have agreed to form a joint government in an effort to end the bloodshed that has engulfed the country since the disputed Dec. 27 presidential election
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The DR Congo and Ugandan leaders agree to pull back troops to ease tensions over an oil-rich lake.
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RI-KWANGBA, Sudan-Congo border  - The two top   leaders of the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have   missed a Tuesday deadline to gather at an assembly point on the   Sudan-Congo border as part of a truce, mediators said.