No timetable for uniting Africa
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African leaders end their summit in Ghana without reaching agreement on setting up a pan-African government.
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Britain's hopes of drumming up $50  billion a year in aid for Africa suffered a serious setback on  Friday when the United States rejected London's plan.
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PARIS, Aug 28 (IPS) - Concern over getting too little in return for what  they are being asked to give up has led some African nations to  say "no" to some proposals for new trade relations with  Europe next year.
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African leaders have signed a UN-backed peace framework for the Great Lakes region, but quickly admitted it might be difficult to implement amid ethnic violence, poverty and political mistrust.
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The International Monetary Fund appears to be unable to agree on a debt relief plan for the world's poorest nations.
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Organizers of a national reconciliation conference in Somalia due to start on Thursday have postponed it for one month in the second delay to long-awaited peace efforts in the chaotic Horn of Africa nation.
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RI-KWANGBA, Sudan-Congo border  - The two top   leaders of the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have   missed a Tuesday deadline to gather at an assembly point on the   Sudan-Congo border as part of a truce, mediators said.
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The Sudanese government announced that it does not take into consideration the one month grace period given by the UN Security Council and ends by August to achieve a progress and fulfill Khartoum&#39;s obligations over Darfur crisis else face possible
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African leaders were struggling Tuesday to nail down an agreement on a roadmap for a closer union at the end of a summit which exposed deep rifts over how fast they should move towards integration.
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Somalia's reconciliation conference is again delayed after the Hawiye clan and Islamists refuse to take part.
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French citizens wait to depart to France at the airport of Abidjan , Ivory Coast, on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004. African leaders convened in an emergency summit on Ivory Coast&#39;s crisis on Sunday without this country&#39;s
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Government and labour union negotiators have failed to reach an agreement on state-controlled fuel prices, setting the stage for a nationwide workers&#39; strike in Africa&#39;s largest oil producer.
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A transport mix-up delayed the start of a new round of peace talks on Sudan&#39;s Darfur region on Thursday, as the African Union prepared to deploy thousands of new troops to monitor renewed fighting in the remote province.
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Two proposed resolutions condemning widespread rights abuses in Sudan and Zimbabwe failed to pass a UN committee, mired in debate between African and western nations.
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The United States of Africa. It's one of few concrete plans African leaders agreed on as they struggled with issues of peacekeeping and political disputes at this week's continental summit.
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WINDHOEK, February 15  (IPS) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC)  should engage in serious discussions to prevent the economic  partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union from  destroying its regional integration efforts.
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The UN calls an emergency meeting as Africa fails to make progress on its Millennium Development Goals.