African Union boss headed to Kenya for crisis talks
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Young men armed with machetes manned roadblocks in Kenya on Wednesday as world powers stepped up efforts to end a wave of tribal violence over a disputed presidential election that threatens to tear the country apart.
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki flew to Ethiopia on Thursday for an African summit likely to be dominated by the violence gripping his country.
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A summit of African Union leaders shifted its attention Friday from the crisis in Kenya to Chad, with delegates voicing fears of a major conflict that could scupper peace efforts in Sudan.
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African Union mediation to end Kenya's  post-election turmoil, in which up to 1,000 people may have  died, could start on Wednesday, opposition leader Raila Odinga  said on Monday.
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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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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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Kenya's opposition leader called Sunday for the African Union to send peacekeepers to stem violence sparked by the country's disputed presidential election.
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Kenya's feuding president and  opposition leader have agreed to work with a panel of African  personalities to seek resolution to a dispute over the December  27 election, the head of the African Union said on Thursday.
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is taking over mediation in Kenya's disputed presidential election, an African Union statement said Thursday.
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African Union chief John Kufuor shuttled between Kenyan leaders Wednesday to try to resolve political deadlock following post-election violence that left 600 dead and displaced a quarter of a million.
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will hold talks with Kenya's feuding parties on Wednesday to find a rapid solution to a standoff over a disputed election that erupted into a bloody political crisis.
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Kenya's government and opposition are due to begin full negotiations to try to end the country's political crisis.
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Africa cannot thrive unless Kenya does, so Africans must make solving its crisis a priority, the head of the African Union told the continent's leaders Â among them the Kenyan president Â at Thursday's opening of a three-day summit.
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African Union Chairman John Kufuor quit Kenya on Thursday without a deal to end a political crisis that has killed 500 people, leaving the president and opposition leader accusing each other of wrecking talks.
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West African leaders meet in Nigeria on Sunday to discuss a deepening crisis in Ivory Coast, one of the region&#39;s former economic powerhouses where a
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Ghanaian President John Kufuor will visit Kenya next week in an attempt to break the country's political deadlock and end its explosion of ethnic violence, his foreign minister said on Saturday.
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African Union chief John Kufuor shuttled between Kenya's president and opposition leader on Wednesday to try to break a political impasse behind post-election turmoil that has killed 500 people.