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EU leaders to meet African counterparts

    JOHANNESBURG

    Africa’s former colonial overlords return to the continent in a different guise next month when leaders of the European Union and African nations meet in Cairo to set an agenda for peace and prosperity.

    Reuters quoted Manuel Pereira, Portugal’s ambassador to South Africa, as telling a parliamentary committee the summit “will be an extremely important step in relations between the two continents. Pereira, whose country holds the 15-nation EU’s rotating presidency, said the two day summit starting on April 3 would cover a vast agenda from economic to political cooperation with a solid focus on promoting peace and fighting HIV/AIDS.

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