African leaders meeting in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam inked a United Nations-backed agreement Saturday pledging to find peaceful solutions to conflicts in Central Africa's Great Lakes region. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, speaking at the gathering of heads of state from 11 countries including Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said it had taken ten years to get all the leaders around the talks table. Saturday's agreement pledged to bring an end to war, genocide, hunger and disease in the region, plagued by conflict since around 800,000 people were killed in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Around three million people were killed in the 1998-2003 war in DRC alone.