9 January 2008
The African Union chairman, President John Kufuor of Ghana, met Kenyan government and opposition leaders in Nairobi on Wednesday in a bid to bring to an end the country's political crisis.
A Kenyan government statement said President Mwai Kibaki met Kufuor at State House, Nairobi, and had "assured President Kufuor that he had already initiated a process of dialogue with other Kenyan leaders to find sustainable solution to the current political situation in the country."
Kibaki had told Kufuor that his "first priority" had been restoring peace. "Now that peace was returning... his partially-formed Government would continue to reach out..." the statement said.
News agencies reported that Kufuor went directly from State House to a hotel to meet with the principal opposition challenger, Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement. Agence France Presse reported that the ODM's secretary-general, Anyang Nyongo, told the agency earlier: "We have not changed our position on recognising the president. We do not recognise him."
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