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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Two weeks of negotiations at a United Nations conference here on climate change ended early Saturday with a weak pledge to start limited, informal talks on ways to slow
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Negotiators for Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed interim government held peace talks Sunday with delegates from an increasingly powerful Islamic militia that controls most of the country's south, including the capital.
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Hope for any positive result from the Darfur peace talks, which opened in Libya this weekend, hung in the heat here yesterday as elusively as the chance of a breeze.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Darfur peace talks kicked off  four days late Monday amid mounting international concern about  a resurgence of fighting in western Sudan.
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DAKAR, 26 Aug 2004 (IRIN) - Hit by power cuts and administrative hitches, the Darfur peace talks in the Nigerian capital Abuja made slow progress on Thursday, a spokesman for the African Union (AU) which is sponsoring the negotiations said.
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Sudanese officials and Darfur rebels  arrived in Nigeria on Friday for talks on a political deal to  end two years of conflict in the vast desert region which  observers say is slipping deeper into chaos.
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Iraqi government officials and their American military backers opened talks yesterday with aides of the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in an attempt to end three weeks of fighting in the slums of northern Baghdad.
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CANNES, France  - A summit intended to strengthen ties between Africa and former colonial power France opened on Thursday but all eyes will be on a subject not on the agenda -- Sudan's battered Darfur province.
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Senior officials from Somalia's key rival powers predict progress in talks due to start on Saturday.
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A U.N. General Assembly  committee dealt a heavy blow on Monday to Western Sahara's  hopes for a referendum on independence and energized Morocco's  push for new talks on the territory's future status.
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A West African  delegation has talks with Guinea's president on ways of resolving the political crisis.
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Morocco and Western Sahara's  Polisario independence movement ended two days of talks near  New York City on Wednesday without agreement on Africa's  longest-running territorial dispute.
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Talks aimed at curbing bloodshed are under way attended by representatives of various groups in Iraq.
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Peace talks to end Sudan&#39;s southern civil war could produce a breakthrough agreement by the end of the year, but the outlook for talks on the western Darfur conflict
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Talks on the conflict in the western Sudanese region of Darfur resumed here Monday, aimed at ending what was described by the United Nations as the world&#39;s worst humanitarian crisis.
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Morocco and the Polisario Front have begun UN-sponsored talks over the disputed Western Sahara.