Congo peace deal cannot be renegotiated - VP
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KINSHASA, Aug 19  - Congo must stick to the terms of its fragile peace agreement, one of the country&#39;s vice presidents said on Thursday, as a dissident army officer said the process was failing and threatened to resume fighting.
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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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Congo's government and warring rebel and militia factions will sign a deal on Tuesday to end fighting in the country's conflict-torn east, government officials and diplomats said on Monday.
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Turkey's offer to ease its trade dispute with Cyprus is insufficient to stop the European Union discussing a freeze on Ankara's membership talks, Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen has said.
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Â· Kibaki put on defensive by Odinga's yes to mediation  Â· African Union head due to arrive to help end turmoil
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The talks between the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen and the LTTE Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran in Kilinochchi on Thursday failed to break the stalemate on the question of resuming peace talks with the Sri Lankan government to end the ethnic
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Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams says he may have accepted the prime minister&#39;s apology, but he&#39;s still not taking his deal.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s government has rejected demands from Tamil Tiger rebels to unconditionally resume peace talks. The rebels threatened at the weekend to return to military action unless discussions based on their blueprint for self-rule began again.
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The elusive leader of a brutal Ugandan rebellion said Tuesday he was committed to negotiating a cease-fire and peace agreement after 19 years of war that has killed thousands and forced children to become fighters.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Peace talks on Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region are deadlocked, a mediator said yesterday, as the chief of the African Union appealed to the Sudanese government and rebels to compromise.
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The African Union's chief administrator said here Wednesday the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region cannot be solved militarily and urged all sides to adhere to a peace agreement.
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The African Union's envoy to Sudan said he would continue to negotiate with parties which did not sign a peace deal this year aimed at ending the conflict in the troubled region of Darfur.
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JUBA, Sudan  - Talks to resolve a standoff in Sudan's national coalition government could resume next week after a first round ended without resolution, threatening a fragile peace agreement that ended Africa's longest war.
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Congo's government spokesman denied Tuesday that rival army factions were fighting each other in the east of the country and insisted the clashes were between Congolese and Rwandan forces.
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A top Norwegian peace envoy met with Sri Lanka&#39;s Prime Minister on Thursday, a day after failing to break a deadlock in peace talks between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels.
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The European Union is not yet ready to lift an arms embargo on China, Bernard Bot, Foreign Minister of the Netherlands which holds the bloc's rotating presidency, said Wednesday.  "We are working assiduously but...the time is not right to lift the embargo," Bot told reporters on arrival at a summit between the bloc and Chinese leaders.
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The Sri Lankan government denied on   Wednesday having agreed to hold unconditional peace talks with   Tamil Tiger rebels, as announced by international mediators.