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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South Sudan's leader will meet the president to seek to resolve a crisis threatening to tear the country apart.
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Kenya's feuding parties have moderated their positions at talks on President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election and hope to reach a deal within days to end a crisis that has killed more than 1,000 people.
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African Union leaders gathered in Ethiopia were set Saturday to discuss means of containing the violence in Kenya and Chad during a special meeting on the last day of their summit.
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Kenya on Tuesday to try to end a political crisis that has killed at least 650 people, and called on the feuding parties to start talks and respect the rule of law.
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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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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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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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Kenya's rival leaders have agreed to work with a mediation panel led by former UN chief Kofi Annan to end a political crisis that has claimed hundreds of lives, the head of the African Union said Thursday.
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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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Washington's top diplomat for Africa hopes to meet both sides in Kenya's political crisis on Saturday to seek an end to ethnic unrest that has killed more than 300 and shattered the country's peaceful image.
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President Mwai Kibaki's appointment of  a partial cabinet sparked more violence in Kenya overnight as  the African Union began talks on Wednesday to end post-election  turmoil that has killed around 500 people.
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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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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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Washington's top diplomat for Africa met Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga on Saturday to seek an end to ethnic violence that has killed more than 300 people and shattered the country's peaceful image.
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West African leaders meet in Nigeria on  Sunday to discuss a deepening crisis in Ivory Coast, one of the  region's former economic powerhouses where a week of unrest has  caused some 5,000 expatriates to flee.
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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.