Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo also told a news conference at the end of the one-day meeting that Africa must develop its own sources of financing for economic growth and development.
"It is now time to implement Nepad and we identified several key priority areas including the development of infrastructure and improving food security in Africa," Obasanjo said.
"We shall see what science and technology can do to help us increase productivity and reach self-sufficiency in food in our continent," he added.
"We must be able to generate some funds, that means carrying our own load before others can assist," he said.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade and Algerian leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika were among the leaders attending the meeting in the Mozambican capital.
Launched three years ago, NEPAD is an African initiative designed to pull the continent out of poverty by embracing key principles such as good governance and public financial accountability.
The talks come ahead of a meeting of the Group of Eight club of rich nations next month at which six African leaders have been invited by US President George W Bush to take part.
Other than Mbeki, Obasanjo and Wade, the leaders of Algeria, Ghana and Uganda have been invited to join the G8 leaders meeting in the southern US state of Georgia on June 10. - Sapa-AFP
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