African Union Chairman and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo will hold high-level talks Saturday on the crisis in the Ivory Coast, his spokesperson said Friday. The meeting will be held at Obasanjo's Ota farm in his home state of Ogun in Nigeria's southwest, Remi Oyo added in Abuja. Oyo said the meeting underscored the concern of Nigeria and the AU for crisis points across the African continent. Nigeria is currently hosting peace talks on the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur and has troops deployed there. It is also host to former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was granted asylum by Obasanjo to enhance the peace process in Liberia. One of Liberia's former rebel leaders, Roosevelt Johnson, died in Nigeria in October after spending several years in asylum there. Nigeria spearheads peace operations on the African continent either from the platform of the Economic Community of West African States or the African Union. --SP 0051 Local Time 2151 GMT
