The World - News from March 12, 1987

A summit of nine African states condemned South Africa’s policies of racial separation, saying that only full economic sanctions will force Pretoria to end apartheid. The condemnation was part of a statement issued at the end of one-day meeting in Cairo of the nine-member Coordinating Bureau of the Organization of African Unity, hosted by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The summit also called for talks to end fighting between Chad and Libya in northern Chad and the convening of an international conference to discuss Africa’s external debt crisis.