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Libya to host mini Arab summit Tuesday CAIRO, Jan 22, 2007 (AFP) - The leaders of five Arab states will gather in Libya Tuesday to review the situation in the Middle East and Africa, an Egyptian official was quoted as saying Monday. "The leaders of the five countries will hold a meeting Tuesday in Sirte," Egypt's ambassador to Libya Mohammed al-Tahtawi told the state-owned Al-Ahram daily. Besides Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Libya's Moamer Kadhafi, the summit will also include the leaders of Tunisia, Sudan and Algeria. The meeting, which comes days before an African Union summit in Addis Ababa and weeks ahead of a March Arab summit in Riyadh, is also expected to discuss the latest developments in Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur. Fighting between Sudanese government forces and holdout rebel groups has escalated in recent months and threatened to spill over into neighbouring countries. "The leaders will focus on the Darfur problem and seek a common Arab-African position to resist pressures," the newspaper quoted Tahtawi as saying. According to UN figures, at least 200,000 people have been killed and more than two million displaced since the February 2003 rebel uprising in the western Sudanese region, that was fiercely repressed by government troops and allied militias. Some sources say the death toll in the four-year-old war is much higher. Khartoum has come under mounting pressure to accept the deployment of UN peacekeepers to assist or supplement an embattled African Union contingent which has failed to stem the bloodshed. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
