African Leaders Sign Great Lakes Peace Pact
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African leaders signed a  U.N.-backed peace framework for the Great Lakes region on  Saturday, but quickly admitted it might be difficult to  implement amid ethnic violence, poverty and political mistrust.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged leaders of Africa&#39;s resource-rich but blood-soaked Great Lakes region on Friday to implement a peace plan that could herald a &quot;new era&quot; for millions of Africans.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 20 (Xinhuanet,by Cheng Zhiliang, Zhang Ran) -- Eleven countries in Africa&#39;s conflict-ridden Great Lakes region concluded here Saturday a two-day summit with the adoption of a landmark peace declaration aimedat democracy and prosperity.
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NAIROBI, Jan. 23 -- More than 25 warring militia groups, including one loyal to renegade Gen. Laurent Nkunda, signed an agreement Wednesday to end the relentless fighting in Congo's eastern forests that has uprooted more than 400,000 people in the past year alone.
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Chadian President Idriss Deby and leaders of Chad's four main rebel groups signed Thursday a peace accord after the latest flare-up of unrest in the central African country, a Libyan official said.
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The government of the Central African Republic reaches a peace deal with one of the main rebel groups.
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ABUJA  - Sudanese government and rebel leaders from the war-torn region of Darfur agreed to sign two accords on the humanitarian and security crises in the western area, delegates said.
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Sudan's government and southern rebels agreed the final chapters of a peace deal on Friday, paving the way for a comprehensive accord ending Africa's longest-running civil war in January, witnesses said.
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One day after creating the South American Community of Nations (CSN), a continent wide political-economic bloc, the leaders of South America on Thursday signed the Ayacucho Declaration
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President Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast signs an agreement with rebels aimed at reuniting the country.
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The Congolese and Ugandan presidents meet to defuse tensions over oil exploration at Lake Albert.
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Seven Central African countries signed a landmark treaty Saturday to establish cross-border partnerships to help save the world's second largest rain forest.
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The DR Congo and Ugandan leaders agree to pull back troops to ease tensions over an oil-rich lake.
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African leaders have lauded progress towards peace in the continent's powderkeg Great Lakes region, but said more was needed to overcome challenges to lasting stability and development.
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Uganda's government and Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have signed the third phase of a five-stage peace deal aiming to end two decades of conflict in the country's northern region, the rebel group said on Saturday.
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Sudan's government and rebel leaders sign 'landmark' accords aimed at ending the Darfur crisis.
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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.