Western Sahara talks begin, expectations low
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Morocco and the Polisario  independence movement began a round of talks on Western Sahara  on Tuesday amid Polisario threats of renewed conflict and  doubts that the negotiations would yield results.
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Sudanâs government and rebels have wrapped up a first day of new Darfur peace talks, trying to break a deadlock over key security issues keeping aid workers from reaching hundreds of thousands of refugees in the western region of Sudan.
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As many as two new guerrilla factions have emerged in Western Sudan, potentially complicating peace talks that are scheduled to start here on Monday between the
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NIAMEY, Niger  - Sent from China to hunt for oil  under the Sahara desert, Wenhui Tan looked distinctly uneasy as  the conversation turned to security fears ranging from the  spread of Islamic radicalism to cold-blooded banditry.
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West African leaders meet in Ghana with instability in Ivory Coast high on their agenda.
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Sudan &#39;s government has said it hoped to reach a deal in talks resuming on Friday with rebels in Darfur. Majzoub al-Khalifa, head of Sudan &#39;s delegation to the African Union-sponsored talks in Abuja , said there was &quot;a lot of common ground for agreement&quot;.
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New talks to decide the future of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo got under way on Thursday with a conciliatory tone from both sides, but no breakthrough on their fundamental disagreement over its independence.
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A Shi'ite militia disarmament plan that  could end weeks of fighting in Baghdad got off to a slow start  on Monday as Iraq's interim government pursued peace talks with  the rebel-held Sunni Muslim city of Falluja.
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Talks at the UN over the disputed region of Western Sahara end without any apparent breakthrough.
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Morocco and Western Sahara&#39;s  independence movement kept negotiations alive on the future of  the resource-rich territory, agreeing on Tuesday to meet again  in August after two days of groundbreaking talks.
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The resignation of the negotiator, seen as a moderating influence in Tehran, dimmed hopes for this weekâs talks.
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Peace talks on Sudan's war-torn Darfur  region got under way Monday in Nigeria's capital, overshadowed  by fighting between rebels and government forces in the vast  desert area.
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The resignation of the negotiator, seen by the West as a moderating influence in Tehran, dimmed hopes for this weekâs talks.
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RABAT, Morocco -- A U.S. delegation seeking a home for a new military command in Africa got a chilly reception during a tour of the northern half of the continent this month, running into opposition even in countries that enjoy friendly relations with the Pentagon.
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A special envoy for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is visiting Western Sahara this week seeking a solution to a decades-long dispute between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front.
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A summit of French-speaking countries may have opened with the Ivory Coast at the top of its agenda, but it wasn&#39;t enough to keep the West African state at the table.
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The foreign ministers of Israel and Morocco held their first publicly disclosed talks in years Wednesday, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the heart of the discussion.