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The US is ready to provide financial backing for a west African
peacekeeping force in Liberia, the undersecretary of state for
Africa, Walter Kansteiner, said yesterday.
A major push in Harare to bring President Robert Mugabe and
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to negotiations on the
country's political and economic crises, ended inconclusively on
Monday.
African countries will be chief beneficiaries of an annual $5
billion US government programme to reward emerging markets that
meet its criteria of good governance, the Financial Times reports.