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COMESSA regional summit opens

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    The summit of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (COMESSA) opened in Khartoum on Monday, 12 February. It included five new members, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia and Somalia, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said. Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir declared the summit open after the chairman of the regional organisation, Chadian President Idriss Deby, gave a brief introduction. Bashir called on COMESSA to work against desertification and poverty, AFP said. COMESSA was created in 1998 by Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, and was established by a grouping with primarily economic objectives. Its 11 members were Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Gambia, Libya, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Sudan, until the five new countries increased membership to 16.

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