Africa summit opening in France
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How to tap and protect Africa's natural resources, the continent's role in the world and the information age's impact on African society are pressing themes as a summit of African leaders opens Thursday.Comment
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African leaders were due to declare a joint vision Tuesday on how their continent should be governed at the end of a summit focused on forging a closer union which exposed rifts over the pace of change.
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Heads of the 15 states that sit on the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) will hold a summit to discuss the situation in Ivory Coast on December 10, the organisation announced.
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Premier Wen Jiabao(front row, third from right) and other Asian and European leaders attend the Fifth Asia-Europe Meeting summit, which opened in Hanoi, Vietnam yesterday.
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Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac are among the European leaders taking centre stage at the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of the rich, powerful and famous.
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LONDON : French President Jacques Chirac begins a two-day visit to Britain for an annual Anglo-French summit with the issue of Iraq still hanging over relations between the two European powers.
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A club of African leaders fighting for improved democracy and better governance came under the spotlight Friday ahead of a summit looking at transforming the 53-member African Union (AU) into a closer-knit federation.
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A summit of African leaders on the crisis in the Sudanese region of Darfur opened Sunday in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, the BBC reported.
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The African Union summit begins in Ghana and the idea of a pan-African government will be the main theme.
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How to tap and protect Africa's natural resources, the continent's role in the world and the information age's impact on African society are pressing themes as a summit of African leaders opens Thursday.
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French President Jacques Chirac has urged all sides in Ivory Coast&#39;s crisis to resume talks as he opened a summit of French-speaking countries snubbed by the Ivorian delegation.
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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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Leaders of the African Union began a three-day summit here Sunday focused on plans to forge a confederation of states with an acknowledgement the continent&#39;s current system of governance had to improve.
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French President Jacques Chirac and his Nigerian counterpart Olusegun Obasanjo, the current head of the African Union, held talks here Thursday centring on mediation efforts in the troubled Ivory Coast.
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A summit of African leaders opened Saturday with a special welcome for the firebrand presidents of Iran and Venezuela, each visiting the poorest continent to win support for their anti-American agenda.
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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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Heads of state from 17 African countries attended the opening of an African Union summit in Burkina Faso to craft a jobs creation plan to lift hundreds of millions out of poverty.