Twenty African Heads of State Due in Senegal for Anti-Terrorism SummitTwenty African heads of state will attend a continentwide anti-terrorism summit in Senegal this week, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Monday.Representatives from 10 other African nations were also due in Dakar on Wednesday for the one-day meeting. President Abdoulaye Wade called the summit to explore ways Africa can combat the problem. He has said Africans can help fight terrorism by keeping terrorists off their soil and cutting off those who finance terrorist activities. Most African leaders condemned the September 11 terror attacks in the United States and offered their condolences. Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the US attacks, was indicted in the United States for masterminding the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 231 people. The Saudi exile lived in Sudan from the early 1990s until 1996, when he moved to Afghanistan. |
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