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Article: African leaders deal with conflicts, poverty, diseases at AU summit
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 31, 2005
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African leaders deal with conflicts, poverty, diseases at AU
summit
ABUJA, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- African leaders are in closed-door
talks Monday at an African Union (AU) summit in Abuja, Nigeria, aimed
at working out ways of combating conflicts, poverty and killer
diseases on the world's poorest continent.
The host of the two-day, twice-yearly summit, Nigerian President
Olusegun Obasanjo, who chairs the 53-member pan-African body, said
Sunday evening that a lot of positive changes were now taking place
in Africa, despite the continent sill had problems and challenges.
"We have tackled conflict situations with courage; invested