"Most African meetings are dominated by issues related to calamities ... that plague the crisis-prone continent. Now Africa's technocrats and politicians ... tackle one of the continent's most pressing problems: refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs). The special African Union (AU) summit on refugees and IDPs began on Monday and the delegates are mulling how to handle the estimated 17-million people who have fled their homes and how to stop further displacement." (Quoted from article)