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07/02/2004:

"Enormous obstacles challenge Africa's march to integration"

ADDIS ABABA, July 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Africa has set the goal of achieving full integration by 2030, as a major effort for Africans to realize their long-cherished dream of "African Renaissance," but enormous obstacles still lie ahead, posing severe challenges to the ambition.

Analysts say if these hurdles, popping up almost everywhere, are not properly tackled, they might derail any development plan on the world's poorest and most-troubled continent, however ambitious it is.

The obstacles to Africa's continental integration are many and diverse, and the African Union (AU) has just defined as priorities14 of them to address in the years to come in a strategic plan endorsed by African foreign ministers attending the four-day Fifth Ordinary Session of the AU Executive Council in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, with insufficiency of the political will and peace related problems at the top of the list.
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