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Nujoma backs Angola OAU boycott

    JOHANNESBURG
    Namibia has called on fellow African governments to support Angola's call that the venue for the upcoming Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit be moved from Lome in Togo to OAU headquarters in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, 'The Namibian' said on Wednesday. The report said that the Namibian government objected to the summit taking place in Lome because Togo's head of state was cited in a recent United Nations report as breaking international sanctions against the UNITA rebel movement. It said that the government had recently written to OAU Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim in support of Luanda's request for a change of location. The OAU summit is scheduled for 10-12 July.

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