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The U.S. pressed fellow U.N. Security Council members Wednesday to impose sanctions to push for change in Zimbabwe, where leaders cannot agree whether to even talk about how to resolve their crisis amid fears of worsening political violence.A draft resolution Washington wants the council to consider proposes freezing the financial assets of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and 11 of his officials and banning them from traveling outside the country.

Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has said the African federal government will be set up next January by those countries that are ready to do so. "We are going to announce the Union Government next January," Wade said on Convergence FM, a Dakar (Senegal)-based radio station.

Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Wednesday that conditions were not yet right for talks with President Robert Mugabe on forming a unity government to end the violent crisis in the ruined state.Mugabe's officials said they were ready to negotiate after a call by African Union leaders on Tuesday for talks on ending the crisis over the veteran president's re-election in a June 27 one-candidate poll that drew global condemnation.

The United Nations and the African Union (AU) have appointed the Burkina Faso Foreign Minister, Djibril Bassole, as their new Darfur peace envoy. The UN said Mr Bassole will conduct efforts to mediate between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels from the region's city of Fasher. He replaces current UN and AU envoys Jan Eliasson and Salim Ahmed Salim.

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Elimination of onchocerciasis and other neglected tropical diseases in Africa greatly depends on well-managed, resourced and stre n gthened national health systems, a senior official of the World Health Organisat i on (WHO) said here Tuesday.In addition, Fatumata Nafo-Traore, the WHO Representative in Ethiopia, said that the health systems should address health needs of communities that are empowere d to own, contribute and direct local interventions to prevent diseases.

"I insist to President Mugabe that he accept the postponement of the elections so that diplomacy can get under way with the support of the SADC (Southern African Development Community) to find a solution," Wade said in a statement sent to AFP. Dakar - Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade on Monday asked Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to postpone the second round of presidential elections after the withdrawal of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.