DEVELOPMENT:      Trade Agreements, Darfur in the Spotlight at ACP Gathering
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KHARTOUM, Dec 7 (IPS) - The fifth summit of the African, Caribbean and  Pacific (ACP) Group of States is taking place under the theme  'United for Peace, Solidarity and Sustainability';  however, negotiations at the meeting may have a somewhat less  harmonious tone.
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NAIROBI, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- The World Food Program (WFP) has said it was gearing up for a &quot;critical stage&#39;&#39; in delivering food assistance to hundreds of thousands of people affected by conflictin the western Sudanese region of Darfur.
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African leaders sought to reconcile differences between neighbours Chad and Sudan over Darfur and boost Somalia&#39;s embattled transitional government at a regional summit in Libya on Sunday.
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The New Partnership for Africa&#39;s Development (Nepad) is under the microscope at two-day Nepad Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre.
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France brings the United States, China and some 15 other nations together for a major conference here Monday aimed at launching a new international drive to end atrocities in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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Tokyo (VNA) - Delegates from Asian and African governments, organisations and the private sector began a conference on Monday in Tokyo to help expand trade relations for sustainable economic development in Africa, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry
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A mini summit opened on Sunday night in Tripoli where the situation in Darfur was discussed. The Libyan leader, Muammar Qadhafi, had invited the presidents of Egypt, Chad, Sudan and Nigeria as well as the
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GENEVA, Jun 22 (IPS) - The high-profile Potsdam meeting of the Group of  Four members -- the United States, the European Union, Brazil and  India -- broke down on "North-South" lines Thursday when  the two developing countries thwarted sustained attempts by the  trans-Atlantic trade partners to undermine the developmental  concerns of the developing countries in the Doha Development  Agenda trade negotiations.
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The United States, China, France and other key world players meeting Monday are hoping to speed deployment of peacekeepers to Darfur and consolidate sometimes disparate international efforts for the ravaged Sudanese region.
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There has been increased interest among Americans in recent months in the ethnic conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. Following a visit by Colin Powell, millions of Americans who had little
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LAGOS, Nigeria: Darfur&#39;s warring parties are to meet today for talks that will launch a critical week for Sudan&#39;s international relations and may be a last chance for African diplomacy to resolve the deadly crisis.
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Political tensions are expected to overshadow progress on climate change and African aid as leaders gathered Wednesday for the annual Group of Eight Summit being held in Heiligendamm, Germany.
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DAVOS, Jan 27 (IPS) - Ministers from India, Brazil and South Africa  warned at the Davos World Economic Forum Saturday that the  success of Doha trade negotiations over the next couple of months  will depend on "balanced" commitments between agriculture  and opening of markets for industrial products.
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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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The 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries on Thursday urged Sudan to work with the international community to end the four-year-old conflict in Darfur.
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VIENTIANE -- Southeast Asian ministers yesterday finalized a free trade pact with China and a host of other accords to be adopted at a leaders summit, but touchy topics like the lack of democracy in Myanmar and Islamic unrest in Thailand were sidestepped. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting of 10 leaders was a prelude to a two-day summit. ...
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BONN, Mar 13 (IPS) - Europe's highest-ranking trade official has  claimed  that the entire African, Pacific and  Caribbean (ACP)  bloc is committed to reaching controversial free trade  deals  with the EU by  the end of this year. Not everyone from the ACP  group thinks so.