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...been sent to Niger - as well as Benin, Burkina-Faso and Congo-Brazzaville - he explains, as part of an effort to convince African heads of state to visit Iraq. Such visits would break the embargo on flights to the country, and Baghdad hoped this would undermine the UN sanctions regime. The inspiration for the project, al-Zahawie suspects, had been recent visits by African leaders to Libyan leader Muammar Ghadafi, which had broken the embargo on flights to that country...
...helped quell unrest in Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and Ivory Coast. Washington points to it as an example of Africa helping itself, and over the past few years has trained Nigerian, Ghanaian and Senegalese battalions. But with around 1,300 troops in Ivory Coast, and West African soldiers in Congo as part of a United Nations peacekeeping force, ECOMOG is already stretched thin. "We just can't meet all these crises," says spokesman Sunny Ugoh. "We still need help to help ourselves." The biggest problems are money and logistics. Nigeria, which has supplied the bulk of the troops for past...
...Wavering Peace DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO New doubts were cast on the peace process when rebel ministers in the new power-sharing administration refused to swear an oath of loyalty to President Joseph Kabila at a ceremony in Kinshasa, and fresh fighting broke out in the eastern Ituri region. Earlier, the leaders of two main rebel groups were sworn in as Vice Presidents, raising hopes that the transitional government, set up under a peace deal agreed in April, might bring a permanent end to the five-year civil war. However, on Friday the rebels said they would recognize Kabila only...
...Liberia, but Administration officials argue it is a sign of respect for leaders like Mbeki that Bush believes they can be trusted to handle their own affairs. Bush emphasized this point in his public remarks by praising the South African leader's good work inquelling violence in the Congo and Burundi...
...young men, it may have a nasty habit of recurring. And as he's pressing the case for more action against al-Qaeda and regional warlords and demagogues (primarily Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe), President Bush is likely to hear growing calls from African leaders for help in the Congo, currently Africa's bloodiest and most intractable conflict...