Africa leaders bid to smooth Darfur rifts, boost Somalia
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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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African Union heads of state meet to discuss the conflicts in Ivory Coast and Sudan's Darfur region.
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Sudan&#39;s government and rebel leaders are set to resume African Union-sponsored talks in Nigeria Tuesday on the conflict in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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Leaders of Egypt, Chad, Nigeria and Libya met Sunday with Sudan's president to discuss ways to resolve the humanitarian crisis in his country's western Darfur region without sanctions.
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Sudanese government officials and rebel leaders held face-to-face talks Friday, as African Union mediators sought to hammer out agreements that would halt Darfur's deadly conflict and pave the way toward a permanent peace.
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African leaders put final touches on a new, U.N.-backed peace plan for the troubled Great Lakes countries on Saturday amid fresh allegations of gun-running, abuse and violence in the vast, volatile region.
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African leaders held talks in Chad on Wednesday, hoping to revive a faltering peace process for Sudan's Darfur region and find ways of enforcing a truce in a civil war that has already killed tens of thousands of people.
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The Sudanese government and the Darfur region's rebel groups are due to meet in the Nigerian capital Abuja as the African Union bids to restart its stalled peace process and prove that the troubled continent can handle its own crises.
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TRIPOLI, Libya: Libya confirmed that the leaders of Sudan, Egypt, Chad and Nigeria would join Moammar Gadhafi for a &quot;mini-summit&#39;&#39; Sunday on Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, which the United Nations calls the world&#39;s worst humanitarian crisis.
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The United States, China, France and other key world players meeting Monday are hoping to speed deployment of peacekeepers to Darfur and consolidate sometimes disparate international efforts for the ravaged Sudanese region.
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N'DJAMENA  - African leaders held talks in Chad on  Wednesday, hoping to revive a faltering peace process for  Sudan's Darfur region and find ways of enforcing a truce in a  civil war that has already killed tens of thousands of people.
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The African Union is brokering peace talks between Sudan&#39;s warring government, rebel armies and regional power-brokers, aiming to head off a mounting humanitarian crisis in the Darfur province.
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ABUJA : The African Union will bring Sudan&#39;s warring government and rebel armies into talks with regional power-brokers aimed at heading off a mounting humanitarian crisis in the province of Darfur.
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Britain called on Friday for world   leaders to prepare a summit on easing the humanitarian crisis   in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region.
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TRIPOLI, Libya &#151; After a weeklong trip to three African countries, the U.N. secretary-general said Sunday he was encouraged by "credible progress" toward settling one of the continent's bloodiest conflicts in Sudan's Darfur region.
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African leaders and heads of international agencies on Friday urged the African Union&#39;s development program NEPAD to move forward to help accelerate the continent&#39;s integration and growth.
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Top European Union officials met Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Saturday to try to find common ground on ways to end the military crisis in Darfur and ease one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.