Annan kicks off talks on Darfur crisis
17th Nov 2006, 06:32 GMT
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan opened high-level talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Thursday with senior African Union officials to seek solutions to the crisis in Sudan's troubled western Darfur region. But prospects for the meeting reaching consensus on a way forward remained unclear.
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