1.   But African delegates have been conspicuously quiet on the issue of present-day slavery in Sudan and Mauritania.

2.   But McKenzie said that, to the contrary, some African delegates had asked her to come to their districts if she was elected.

3.   Support for him among African delegates has been lukewarm.

4.   A frustrated Hayatou confronted Blatter and accused him of ignoring African delegates during the question time.

5.   A European Union diplomat said the African delegates had come to the conference with a far harder line on the issues than they had taken at the preparatory conferences.

6.   After announcing the deal to a meeting of African delegates, the room broke into a round of handshaking and backslapping.

7.   African delegates were cautiously optimistic.

8.   Baird said one approach had come from someone claiming to represent African delegates.

9.   Baird also told ABC Television that he was approached by someone claiming to represent African delegates.

10.   Fast-talking conservationists chatted into mobile phones, fired off e-mails and distributed mounds of documents Monday while ill-equipped African delegates looked enviously on.