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OAU talks open in South Africa

    JOHANNESBURG

    Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Secretary-General Salim Ahmed Salim arrived in South Africa on Tuesday for talks on the future of the troubled Comoro Islands, officials said. The talks hosted by South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, are being attended by the foreign ministers of Burkina Faso, Algeria and Togo, a troika of past, present and future OAU presidencies mandated to seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis in the Indian Ocean archipelago. The OAU refuses to recognise the current military junta in the Comoros, headed by Colonel Azali Assoumani, which seized power in April. The talks will also deal with a breakaway led by Anjouan which declared unilateral independence from the government in 1997.

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