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 KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - African leaders began their annual summit Monday in disarray, failing to resolve dissension over Sudan's bid to chair the 53-state body while it stands accused of complicity in the conflict in Western Darfur.
More than 30 leaders heard current African Union chairman Olusegun Obasanjo, president of powerful Nigeria, praise "the unprecedented capacity to champion the cause of peace, unity and development" demonstrated by Africans over the past year.
But Obasanjo's list of ongoing conflicts far outweighed the "modest achievements" in a handful of countries including Liberia, where the continent's first woman president was installed after elections ended a decade of civil war.
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