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For some here, like the United Nations' special representative Jan Pronk, the AU meeting holds out a lot of promise.
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That is partly because the earthquake struck the capital, Port-au-Prince, knocking out such institutions as the country possessed.
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The Haitians want to just amend their development plan to take account of what's happened in Port-au-Prince and west, figure out what they got to do about that, and then go back to implementing it.
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On Saturday, the U.N. finally got a road link between Gonaives back to Port Au Prince, and Ike's knocked that out as well.
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In exchange for caring for your boss' children and caring out light housekeeping or cooking duties, au pair positions offer a chance to travel abroad with room and board and a living stipend.
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Al-Shabab was forced out of Mogadishu in August 2011 following an offensive by AU and government troops.
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The Kenyan military said that Kenyan, Somali and AU troops were "currently consolidating the gains in Kismayo and expanding out to the rest of the city", according to a message on its official Twitter account.
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Sceptics point out that, while promoting pan-African democracy, some AU nations are run by autocrats.
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This is hugely important because Hurricane Ike knocked out the last road connecting Gonaives to the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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They have been kicked out of Mogadishu, Somalia's ruined seaside capital, by African Union (AU) troops paid by America and the European Union.
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