Leaders split over African unity
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Several African leaders reject plans to set up a pan-African government, as suggested by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.
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African leaders signed a  U.N.-backed peace framework for the Great Lakes region on  Saturday, but quickly admitted it might be difficult to  implement amid ethnic violence, poverty and political mistrust.
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LIBREVILLE, Gabon  - Three of Africa's big crises  -- strife in Ivory Coast, fighting in Congo and the  humanitarian emergency in Sudan's Darfur -- provide a daunting  agenda for an African Union summit that began Monday in Gabon.
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West African leaders held a crisis summit  on Sunday over unrest in Ivory Coast as the country's president  took a tough stance, sacking his army chief and installing a  more hardline officer in his place.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe calls for unity in his ruling party amid deep splits over the succession.
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November 15, 2004 -- ABUJA, Nigeria - West African leaders held a crisis summit yesterday over unrest in Ivory Coast, as the beleaguered country&#39;s president took a tough stance, sacking his army chief and installing a more hard-line officer in his place
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KHARTOUM, Sudan - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Sudanese president announced plans yesterday for a conference next month on ending the conflict in Darfur, but the main rebel factions split over taking part in Ban's peace effort.
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African leaders have vowed to speed up the economic and political integration of their continent to pursue the goal of a United States of Africa, but they also agreed to study more closely how to achieve it.
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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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The crisis in Kenya is set to dominate an African Union summit  in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
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Libya hosts a summit of 23 African leaders on Saturday against the backdrop of conflicts in Darfur, Ivory Coast and Somalia.
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African leaders have ended a summit in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, with an agreement that Sudan may have to adopt a federal system of government in the Darfur region.
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African leaders sought to reconcile differences between neighbours Chad and Sudan over Darfur and boost Somalia&#39;s embattled transitional government at a regional summit in Libya on Sunday.
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ABUJA, Nov 8  -- African Union mediators held separate talks with representatives of the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels Monday but the two sides remained deadlocked on security arrangements for the war-torn region.
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African leaders meet this weekend to debate a grand plan for a continental government, but they face pleas for urgent action now to halt conflicts in Darfur and Somalia and tackle enduring poverty.
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ABUJA : Sudan&#39;s warring government and rebel leaders agreed to study an agenda for peace talks drawn up by the African Union, after a first day of negotiations revealed deep divisions over how to proceed.
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African Union mediators sought to break the deadlock at peace talks for Sudan's Darfur region, after negotiations bogged down over differences on security and disarmament between Khartoum and two rebel groups.