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Madagascar leaders reach power-sharing deal: mediator

AFP Global Edition 18 days ago

Madagascar's top four political figures reached an agreement on sharing power ahead of elections next year, a UN official involved in the talks told AFP. "The Madagascan leaders have managed to reach an accord on putting in place a transitional charter," said ...

Madagascar leader rejoins crisis talks

AFP Global Edition 18 days ago

Madagascar's disputed leader Andry Rajoelina rejoined crisis talks on Friday after threatening to pull out of a meeting in Addis Ababa amid bickering among the country's main political foes. Rajoelina, the self-proclaimed president of the Indian Ocean island nation, went back into ...

Madagascar leader threatens to quit talks

AFP Global Edition 18 days ago

Madagascar's leader Andry Rajoelina threatened Friday to pull out of talks to end the nation's crisis as bickering by the main political foes blocked progress. Rajoelina said he was unhappy that while his staying on transitional president had been approved by the ...

African Union slaps sanctions on Guinea junta

AFP Global Edition 26 days ago

African leaders on Thursday imposed a new barrage of sanctions Guinea's military rulers, increasingly under fire in the wake of last month's massacre of scores of opposition supporters. Heads of states who sit on the African Union Peace and Security Council decided ...

African Union slaps sanctions on Guinea junta: statement

AFP Global Edition 26 days ago

African leaders decided Thursday to impose sanctions on military-ruled Guinea in the wake of last month's massacre of scores of opposition supporters, a statement said. Heads of states who sit on the African Union Peace and Security Council decided to "to take ...

AU peace council adopts proposals to end Darfur crisis

AFP Global Edition 26 days ago

African leaders on Thursday adopted proposals on how to resolve a six-year conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, which include the creation of a hybrid court to try perpetrators of atrocities in the province. The conflict has claimed up to 300,000 lives and ...

AU peace council examines proposals to end Darfur crisis

AFP Global Edition 26 days ago

African leaders on Thursday combed through proposals on how to resolve a six-year conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region that has claimed up to 300,000 lives and displaced millions. Heads of states who sit on the African Union Peace and Security Council ...

Sudan cautiously welcomes African Darfur proposals

Reuters US Online Report World News 26 days ago

ABUJA (Reuters) - Sudan's vice president on Thursday cautiously welcomed proposals from a panel of African leaders to end conflict in Darfur but said the question of a special court to try those charged with atrocities needed further discussion. The 15-member African ...

AU council examines proposals to end Darfur crisis

AFP Global Edition 26 days ago

African leaders on Thursday started combing through proposals on how to resolve a six-year conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region that has claimed up to 300,000 lives and displaced millions. Several heads of states who sit on the African Union Peace and ...

AU peace council examines Darfur crisis

AFP Global Edition 26 days ago

African leaders went into talks on Thursday to discuss an African Union (AU) report on how to resolve a six-year-long conflict in Sudan's western Darfur province. Meeting under the auspices of the AU peace and security council, the leaders are to examine ...

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