African Union mission to Kenya fails to end crisis
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An African Union mission to resolve a political crisis in Kenya that has killed 500 people ended in failure on Thursday as the president and opposition leader accused each other of wrecking talks.
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UN Security Council ambassadors were still quibbling over how best to pressure Sudan and rebels to end two different wars in the country even as they left for Kenya on Tuesday for a meeting on the crisis.
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The crisis in Kenya is set to dominate an African Union summit  in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
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African leaders have been unsuccessful in efforts to win more voting power for the continent at the IMF and World Bank.
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Kenya's president and opposition leader agreed on Thursday to work together with an African panel headed by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to end turmoil that has killed 500 people, the African Union said.
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NAIROBI, Feb. 14 -- Negotiators for President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga issued conflicting statements Thursday about whether progress had been made toward a political settlement of a post-election crisis in this once stable East African nation.
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The African Union called on the  international community to take tougher action in Ivory Coast  and Congo, two of the continent's biggest crises that risk  destabilizing their wider regions.
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Two days after reaching a plan with the Kenyan government to end violence that has wracked the country for more than a month, the opposition party on Sunday asked both the United Nations and the African Union to send in peacekeepers.
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African Union heads of state Thursday began a three-day summit in Addis Ababa focused on the deadly crisis in Kenya and the challenges facing the body's peacekeeping missions.
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A new flare-up of violence shook Kenya on Friday and fresh political recriminations dulled hopes a breakthrough meeting between the president and opposition leader could resolve a month-long crisis.
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An African summit went on into the night on Tuesday as the leaders struggled to forge a consensus and avoid a public split over moves to unite the continent under one federal government.
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Kenya's president assured former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday he wanted talks to resolve a political crisis that has sparked deadly violence, but it was unclear the president welcomed any outside mediators.
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African Union chief John Kufuor shuttled between Kenya's president and opposition leader on Wednesday to try to break a political impasse behind post-election turmoil that has killed about 500 people.
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Sudan's president rejected a proposal yesterday to send UN peacekeepers to Darfur to boost a beleaguered 7,000-member African Union force, crushing hopes for a quick solution to the violence spreading across central Africa. Sudan, the UN, and the AU had agreed to a hybrid mission, but there was confusion, with some Sudanese officials saying they only want ...
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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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African leaders struggled on Tuesday to avoid a damaging split over moves to unite the continent under one federal government.
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Kenyaâs main opposition party called Friday for mass rallies nationwide in the wake of the African Unionâs failure to resolve a deadly election dispute.