Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi contact OAU and Horn of Africa leaders. Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi has contacted OAU and Horn of Africa leaders about the resumption of the border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Kadhafi urged the two countries to return to dialogue in the interests of stability and peace in the region. Indirect peace negotiations held of late in Algiers bore no fruits. The OAU set up a peace plan that was accepted in principle by Eritrea and Ethiopia, but negotiations on the details of implementation have been at an impasse since last year.
Moroccan police disperse a protest by hundreds of engineers.
Moroccan police dispersed a protest by the National Engineers' Commission in front of the country's finance and agriculture ministry. The National Engineers' Commission stated afterwards that the reprisals were a new illustration of hostility and of the government's determination to oppose Morocco's independent unions. Sudanese rebel leader holds talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister. Sudanese rebel leader John Garang has held talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa over ways to resolve the conflict in Sudan. Garang's southern Sudanese have been fighting the Khartoum government for 17 years South Zimbabwe's opposition party discusses the political situation in the country.