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African Union to Review Ivory Coast Conflict

The African Union plans to review South Africa's mediation role in Ivory Coast, where the peace process has stalled repeatedly, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, the AU head, said on Saturday.

The 53-member AU had asked South Africa to mediate in the crisis in the West African nation after a civil war split the world's largest cocoa producer in two and a string of peace initiatives failed.
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