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 BANJUL, Gambia (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told African leaders Saturday that Sudan's Darfur conflict is "one of the worst nightmares in recent history," but just one of the challenges facing a continent wracked by war, poverty and disease.
Annan, who is from Ghana, said AIDS rates were dropping in some African countries and investment on the continent was up 200 percent over the last five years.
But "let us not deceive ourselves," he said. "Overall, the number of Africans living in extreme poverty continues to increase. The spread of HIV/AIDS continues to outpace our efforts to halt it ... The conflicts in Darfur, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Somalia, and northern Uganda continue to outrun efforts for a solution."
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