31.   But this time, African leaders say, there is a difference.

32.   But under intense pressure from African leaders, the United Nations and Western nations, its leader, Jean-Pierre Bemba, came to Sun City.

33.   By choosing six reforming countries to visit on this trip, Clinton strengthens the hand of a new generation of African leaders and encourages others to emulate them.

34.   Chirac said that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan had secured promises to end the fighting in meetings with eight African leaders held Saturday morning.

35.   China, Russia and some African leaders were sharply critical, saying it smacked of colonialism and hegemony.

36.   Clinton has worked, as well, with African leaders to help stem ethnic struggles in Burundi and in Rwanda.

37.   Disillusionment is growing against those African leaders and Western nations whose commitment to African democratization seems unsteady.

38.   During the prime of his long rule, no other African leader occupied anything like the place that Mobutu played in Western policy toward this continent.

39.   Few African leaders led such a mercurial existence as Mobuto Sese Seko.

40.   For decades, African leaders failed to invest in infrastructure, education, health care or legal and regulatory reform.