African leaders agree to study continental union
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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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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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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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African leaders consider requests to contribute to a peacekeeping force for Somalia at the AU summit.
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LIBREVILLE, Gabon  - African leaders said on  Monday they were determined to resolve conflicts in Ivory  Coast, Congo and Sudan's Darfur region to stop the violence  affecting other countries, but called for international  support.
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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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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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Africa is suffering a crisis of leadership and its heads of state must show more mutual confidence and solidarity if they want to advance continental integration, the African Union's top diplomat said on Monday.
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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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Kenya's feuding political leaders agreed Thursday to an immediate cessation of violence and any acts that may harm efforts to end the country's post-election crisis, according to a statement from the Ghanaian presidency, head of the African Union.
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An African Union summit devoted to integration ended Tuesday without agreement on a firm timetable on the establishment of a government for the continent, according to the final declaration.
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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.
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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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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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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast  - South African President  Thabo Mbeki said Monday he had reached agreement with all sides  in Ivory Coast's conflict on measures which should speed up  implementation of a French-brokered peace accord.
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THE HAGUE, Nov 26 (IPS) - Parliamentarians from the African, Caribbean and  Pacific (ACP) group of countries agreed this week on setting up a  joint 'parliament' to improve internal cohesion and to  gain influence with the European Union, World Trade Organisation  and other bodies.
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African leaders were sitting down to their first full day of summit talks in the Nigerian capital Abuja, with the conflicts in the Sudanese region of Darfur and in Ivory Coast at the top of their agenda.