Fifteen African presidents pledge peace in Great Lakes
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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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SIRTE, Libya, Oct 18, 2004 (SUNA) -- The summit of the five presidents which took place in the Libyan town of Sirte has decided to follow up the question of Darfur and to hold regular meetings between the leaders of the five countries.
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As Ghana prepared to vote on Tuesday, December 7, 2004, the four candidates eying the presidential slot assured religious leaders that they would observe peace at the polls and pledged to work with whoever emerged the winner.
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African leaders have a landmark two-billion-dollar (1.5-billion-euro) security and development pact to prevent further violence in the continent's Great Lakes region, one of the world's bloodiest areas.
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Sudan's government and southern rebels  committed themselves Friday to ending Africa's longest civil  war by Dec. 31, signing a pledge in front of 15 U.N. Security  Council ambassadors at an extraordinary meeting.
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ABIDJAN : South African President Thabo Mbeki wrapped up a four-day peace-making trip to the Ivory Coast, saying that all parties in the divided west African nation have agreed to four proposals including key political reforms to put the country back on
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The African Union on Friday hailed the convening of the inaugural summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region as an important event in history.
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The Great Lakes region, which has paid Africa&#39;s highest price in human lives and destruction from ethnic conflict, could soon be plunged again into wholesale war as a result of the recent massacre of 160 Congolese Tutsis in Burundi by Hutu militias.
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While on a tour of Africa&#39;s Great Lakes region, ambassadors from the UN Security Council have called on the Congolese authorities, as well as the international community, to work harder to ensure next year&#39;s elections are held on time.
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Sudan's government and southern rebels vowed on Friday to end Africa's longest civil war by Dec. 31, signing a pledge in front of 15 U.N. Security Council envoys who flew in from New York to demand the fighting stop.
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The presidents of Congo and Rwanda could meet soon to calm renewed tensions between the neighboring countries, according to presidential aides.
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African leaders supported an arms embargo and other UN sanctions on the Ivory Coast government and rebels on Sunday. While they did, Ivory Coast President Laurent
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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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President Bush called today for the 15 countries that are major producers of greenhouse gases to confer this fall and adopt a common goal on curbing emissions.
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Heads of the 15 states that sit on the African Union&#39;s (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) will hold a summit to discuss the situation in Ivory Coast on December 10, the organisation announced on Wednesday.
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Previous winners of the Nobel Peace Prize who were from Africa.
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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.