1.  The conflict continued in the small African state, but the world took no notice.

2.  The meeting was addressed by Mandela, leading an ANC delegation on a tour of six African states to discuss the Cape Town talks.

3.  Relations with African states continued to improve throughout May.

4.  As de Gaulle told the leadership of the new African state of Mali, There is no international reality which is not first of all a national reality.

5.  What was true for the new African states was also true for France.

6.  Another, in the southern African state of Lesotho, which was designed principally to provide fuelwood, proved so unpopular with local people that arson attacks became common.

7.  Four southern African states have agreed on measures to enable them to resume trading in ivory.

8.  Another rising trend is the propensity of African states to invade each other.

9.  At the same time, African states have begun to pursue their own interests more vigorously than ever before.

10.  At the conference, many African states are demanding apologies and reparations from former slave-trading countries for four centuries of human trafficking.