African leaders agree to study unity goal

ACCRA, July 4 (Reuters) African leaders have reaffirmed their common vision of a future continental union under a single government, but agreed to study the details and timing of how to achieve it.

The decision, announced close to midnight yesterday after a three-day summit in the Ghanaian capital Accra, was a setback for at least two leaders, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, who had publicly advocated the immediate formation of a continental government.

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