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 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Seven African leaders reviewed efforts to restore peace in Somalia and Uganda and attempts to resolve a festering border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia Monday.
As the Nairobi summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development opened, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki appealed to the international community to help fight piracy off the coast of lawless Somalia, two days after two U.S. Navy warships exchanged gunfire with suspected pirates. Suspects seized by U.S. sailors in a previous encounter are now standing trial in Kenya.
The leaders reiterated calls for the U.N. Security Council to lift an arms embargo on Somalia to allow for the deployment of a peacekeeping mission there.
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