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African leaders in Libya were on Friday hotly debating a draft resolution by the African Union (AU) which will, if adopted, deal a major blow to the efforts of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute war criminals in Africa.

No gathering hosted by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is ever dull, and the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the African Union, concluding in Sirte, Libya today has not disappointed.

African leaders reached a compromise early Friday on the powers of a new regional Authority that will coordinate key policies but have little power to act without a mandate from member states.

This morning, family members, friends, comrades, colleagues and admirers of the late pan-African icon, Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, will gather in Abuja to mark the 40th day of his death with a variety of events wound around a symposium on the theme, 'Don't Agonise, Organise! The life of Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, 1961-2009, and Pan-Africanism.