No timetable for uniting Africa
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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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There appears to be no end in sight to the fighting in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. Attempts by the African Union (AU) to enforce a cease-fire there have come to nothing.
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BRUSSELS, Jun 4 (IPS) - Central Africa seems an unlikely candidate for a  free trade deal with the European Union.
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Ivory Coast's political leaders fail to agree on how to end the country's political deadlock.
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There is no doubt that we are in a time of chaos in the world. Wars and genocide are as prevalent as ever.     Misery and suffering are on every continent of the globe we call earth. The world is currently focused on the 'War In Iraq' and the problem of nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea but the sad fact is threats to world peace are as prevalent as ever in spite of the efforts of the UN.    Where do we turn? Our respective governments? Grassroots support? Does genocide on the African continent for example even matter?    It is not unreasonable to look to the United Nations for understanding and problem resolution. Presumably, we expect it to be an unbiased and peace loving organization. Yet at closer examination one begins to realize the fact that the United Nations has been a total failure in terms of world peace. Rarely has the UN brought enough countries together to form an alliance to intervene meaningfully in the affairs of an oppressive and brutal country.    With the exception of the World Health Organization little good has come from the peace making mission of the U.N. I suggest the UN go to what it does best. With its world standing already established, the UN should focus on research, education and health, the missions it does best.
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The annual meeting of World Bank and IMF failed to arrive at a consensus in giving more powers to developing countries in decision-making besides increasing aid flow for reducing poverty.
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The United Nations and the African Union have just seven weeks to persuade major rebel factions to attend new Darfur peace talks in Libya &#151; a tough job because a key rebel leader immediately rejected any negotiations until there is a cease-fire.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in an article published today in The Independent, said he would boycott a scheduled EU-Africa Summit slated for December if Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe attends.  Brown accused Mugabe of having left his country in an "appalling and tragic situation." The December summit would be the first between the EU and Africa in 7-years. The current holder of the EU Presidency, Portugal says it has yet to make a decision on whether to invite Mugabe to the EU-Africa summit planned for December in Lisbon.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- An African summit ended today with a proposed peacekeeping force for Somalia still lacking firm commitments for thousands of troops, despite fears that the country could plunge back into anarchy.
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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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NAIROBI, June 13 -- A reconciliation conference intended to lay the groundwork for political stability in Somalia has been postponed again, the conference chairman said Wednesday.
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Two proposed resolutions condemning widespread rights abuses in Sudan and Zimbabwe failed to pass a UN committee, mired in debate between African and western nations.
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African leaders have signed a UN-backed peace framework for the Great Lakes region, but quickly admitted it might be difficult to implement amid ethnic violence, poverty and political mistrust.
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Somalia's reconciliation conference is again delayed after the Hawiye clan and Islamists refuse to take part.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Nigeria failed to agree with Cameroon on a promised troop-pullout from disputed territory in the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea on Friday, a month after a UN-backed deadline for its hand-over to Cameroon passed.
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Talks on the overdue handover of an oil-rich peninsula from Nigeria to Cameroon find no agreement.
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There's still no sign of a resolution of the political standoff in French Polynesia.