African Leaders Meet to Discuss Ivory Coast Crisis
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West African leaders meet in Nigeria on  Sunday to discuss a deepening crisis in Ivory Coast, one of the  region's former economic powerhouses where a week of unrest has  caused some 5,000 expatriates to flee.
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South Africa&#39;s president, Thabo Mbeki, arrived in Ivory Coast yesterday to launch an African Union effort to resolve the crisis, as violence continued for the fourth day.
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A summit of French-speaking nations is to focus on the civil war in Ivory Coast which resumed three weeks ago, ministers say. The Francophone summit in Burkina Faso is due to consider a motion condemning the actions of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo.
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Leaders of Egypt, Chad, Nigeria and Libya met Sunday with Sudan's president to discuss ways to resolve the humanitarian crisis in his country's western Darfur region without sanctions.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki started new peace talks with various Ivory Coast groups, as European Union delegates urged all parties to find a peaceful solution to the two-year crisis wracking the divided west African nation.
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ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST - South Africa&#39;s president flew to Ivory Coast to try to quell the violence between government forces, French troops and civilians that has wounded more than 600 and killed at least 20.
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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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West African leaders including Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo met in Nigeria trying to re-start Ivory Coast's stalled peace process and prevent more unrest in the divided country.
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N'DJAMENA  - African leaders held talks in Chad on  Wednesday, hoping to revive a faltering peace process for  Sudan's Darfur region and find ways of enforcing a truce in a  civil war that has already killed tens of thousands of people.
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Ivory Coast's political rivals are to meet to try to save the disarmament process, which is supposed to start on Friday.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s embattled leader sounded one of the first conciliatory notes Tuesday in his West African nation&#39;s devastating confrontation with its former colonial
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African Union chief John Kufuor met Kenyan leaders on Wednesday to try to break a political deadlock following disputed presidential polls that sparked widespread violence and left at least 600 dead.
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ABIDJAN  - South African President Thabo Mbeki was to meet his Ivory Coast counterpart Laurent Gbagbo, hoping to ease tensions after a weekend of violence that has evoked fears of a return to the conflict that has split the west African state for two
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South African President Thabo Mbeki has invited warring parties in the conflict in Ivory Coast to peace talks and the meeting could take place this week, Mbeki's spokesman said on Wednesday.
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JOHANNESBURG  - Ivory Coast rebels wrapped up a two-day meeting with South African leader and mediator Thabo Mbeki on proposals for a new peace plan, with both sides expressing optimism in a speedy process.
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Ivory Coast rebel leader Guillaume Soro will meet South African President Thabo Mbeki soon on ways to try to end violence in the West African country, a senior official said on Monday.
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AFRICAN leaders convened for an emergency summit yesterday on Ivory Coast as the countryâs defiant leader remained holed up in his mansion.