(Daily Nation)--The Africa Union summit opened here today with praise to President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga for putting Kenya’s interests ahead of their personal ambitions and ending the post election violence.
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People often say when Africans argue for an integrated national African economy, they are self-indulgent entertaining nothing but a futile illusion. They claim that to argue that Africa must unite economically, ‘knowledge-ically’, politically, and ’society-ically’ is to day-dream and to give in to fantasy. They assert that Africa does not exist in anything, form or shape other than as a geographical accident. Of course, they would hardly say this of the USA, for example, where ‘ the tribes of the whole world exist in it’, and people have united under one constitution and national flag, and right now seemingly poised to electing an African –American with a father from Kenya! To claim more than a geographical reality to Africa is often condemned and reproached. The pursuit of African integration is said to be a too pie in the sky dream, fantasy, utopian, unrealistic, which distracts from taking realistic incremental actions and thus by foreclosing such options by going for unity on a big scale is pronounced to be dangerous!
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African civil groups meeting ahead of the African Union Summit in Egypt have called on African leaders to publicly condemn the human rights violations and abuses taking place in Zimbabwe.
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(Business Day)--An African Union summit opens in Sharm el-Shiekh today amid growing calls for African leaders to shun Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe over his widely discredited re-election.
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