African leaders agree on steps to use and keep rainforests
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The leaders of seven central African nations met with international officials and drew up a 10-year plan to tackle threats facing the region's vast forest expanses, one of the world's two lungs.
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African leaders meet in an effort to end a decade of wars that have killed millions in the Great Lakes region.
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SYDNEY, Australia  -- Pacific Rim leaders agreed Saturday to tackle global warming by improving energy use and managing forests better, as thousands of demonstrators rallied to demand the governments do more and act faster.
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ABIDJAN  - South African President Thabo Mbeki wrapped up a four-day peace-making trip to the Ivory Coast, saying that all parties in the divided west African nation have agreed to four proposals including key political reforms to put the country
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The latest scheme to spread electric light in Africa may sound familiar, but this time African leaders say they have the will, and financial backing, to succeed.
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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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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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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- All sides in Ivory Coast's conflict have agreed on measures to revive a moribund peace plan and speed up its implementation, South African President Thabo Mbeki said yesterday at the end of a mediation mission.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has taken some steps toward implementing peace agreements struck earlier with rebels who hold the northern part of the country, a spokesman for South African President Thabo Mbeki said
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Fifteen African presidents and UN chief Kofi Annan signed a common declaration pledging to promote peace and security in the continent's volatile Great Lakes region.
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African nations are engaged in last-ditch negotiations on elephants and ivory as the CITES meeting nears its end.
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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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Global demand for wood is threatening the long-term survival of Africa's forest dwelling communities.
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The African nation's last rain forests are in danger from both agricultural developers and locals who believe its plants hold pharmacological secrets
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that rich nations should pay poorer countries to preserve their forests because the rich are responsible for most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
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Delegates at a U.N. climate conference have agreed to include forest conservation in any future discussions about a new global warming pact, paving the way for billions of dollars in new spending to attack illegal logging, officials said.
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A summit of African leaders has endorsed a power-sharing deal between Burundi&#39;s main Hutu and Tutsi parties.