(1 Feb 2008)
++QUALITY AS INCOMING++
1. Various Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki arriving for meeting at the African Union Summit
UPSOUND: (English) Reporter: "Any progress for the Kenyan people?"
Mwai Kibaki: "Oh yes!"
2. Kibaki at main desk ++MUTE++
3. Omar al-Bashir, Sudanese President walking along corridor after talks
4. Ghanaian President John Kufuor, Outgoing AU Chairperson waking with aides
5. Libya's Moammar Gadhafi walking along corridor making way through reporters
6. South African President Thabo Mbeki walking with aides
7. Kufuor coming out of building
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Kufuor, Outgoing AU Chairperson and President of Ghana:
"I'm telling you, AU hasn't taken sides, AU is standing firm behind (former United Nations Secretary General) Kofi Annan to try to achieve a mutually acceptable role for all sides."
9. Various of officials outside meeting hall
10. Gadhafi leaving meeting
11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Moammar Gadhafi, Libyan President:
(translator) "Actually, I am no longer angry - we have reached an agreement today."
(Reporter: Agreement today?)
(English) "Yeah, yeah, today."
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, new Chairman of AU and Tanzanian President:
"Go to Nairobi and ask Kofi Annan how much time he thinks he has."
(Reporter: "People are continuing to die.")
"The work has been given, assigned to Kofi Annan."
(Reporter: Will you go to Nairobi?)
"To do what?"
(Reporter: "I don't know, I'm asking you.")
"To do what? There is Kofi Annan, Kofi Annan is enough there with his team."
13. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and aides making way through delegates
14. Various of Mbeki leaving UNECA building after meeting
STORYLINE:
President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya on Friday indicated his rival, opposition leader Raila Odinga, should go to court to resolve the country's deadly presidential election dispute.
The Kenyan leader was briefing leaders at the African Union (AU) summit on the elections, according to a Kenyan government statement.
The situation in Kenya continued to dominate discussions as African leaders met in Addis Ababa for a second day of talks at the three-day AU summit.
More than 800 people have been killed across Kenya and tens of thousands have fled their homes since a December 27 vote Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki is accused of rigging.
Kibaki indicated that progress was being made in the talks, and outgoing AU Chairperson John Kufuor assured reporters that the union was standing firm behind former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan "to try to achieve a mutually acceptable role for all sides."
Talks aimed at ending the crisis, being mediated by Annan, resumed on Friday with an address by his successor, Ban Ki-moon, who appealed to negotiators to "look beyond the individual interest".
Ban also met on Friday with Odinga, who accuses Kibaki of stealing December 27 elections and demands a new vote.
Kibaki has made clear his position as president is non-negotiable, and the international community is pressing the two to share power.
In Ethiopia, Kibaki, who met with Ban Ki-moon a day earlier, welcomed the international mediation effort.
But his reiteration of the suggestion the opposition go to the courts indicated the two rivals remain far apart and that negotiations could well be protracted.
Still, Kibaki pointed to the start of talks as a hopeful sign, and said: "I am optimistic that we will arrive at a lasting political solution".
Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, also the AU's new chairperson, said Annan and his team would be "enough" to deal with the situation in Kenya.

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