Power politics confound US of Africa
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The United States of Africa. It's one of few concrete plans African leaders agreed on as they struggled with issues of peacekeeping and political disputes at this week's continental summit.
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South Africa may have gone a long way to addressing racial injustices but there is a growing acceptance that its huge wealth gap threatens to derail the achievements of the post-apartheid era.
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Southern Africa&#39;s AIDS crisis is undermining the region&#39;s young democracies as politicians die, voter rolls shrink and electoral shifts help to entrench ruling parties in power, a new study said on Thursday.
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Progressive leadership in some African  states presents a big opportunity for development but donor  countries and especially the United States must respond, World  Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said on Monday.
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The United States is pushing for political reconciliation but not necessarily a coalition government in Kenya, as the European Union suggested, a State Department spokesman said Thursday.
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An African summit overran on Tuesday as the leaders struggled to avoid a damaging public split over moves to unite the continent under one federal government.
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In few countries does the Cold War cast a longer shadow than in Eritrea, deprived of nationhood by superpower rivalry at the dawn of independent Africa.
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The United States has unmatched military and economic strength, but is it losing its role as a force for global stability?
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While the world's rich and powerful talk about Africa's dead and starving, people here have heard it all before
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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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Comment is free: Jonathan Steele: His mediation in Kenya shows up Washington's disastrous meddling in neighbouring Somalia
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The US decides to keep the base for its new Africa Command in Germany, after a lack of interest from nations.
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An analysis shows that the bulk of them come from countries allied with the US.
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Sudan and Western powers plunged into a war of words over Darfur on Friday, with Khartoum countering US charges of genocide by saying Washington was playing electoral politics with a humanitarian crisis.
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Lack of a big majority may mean the US will be involved longer to support a 'weak' government.
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The US's image has declined worldwide since 2000, even among its allies, but polls in Nigeria show climbing approval rates.
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Thursday's tight presidential race is a rarity in Africa, where one-party rule is the norm.