He was speaking after talks in Khartoum in his capacity as the African Union’s chief mediator .

Thabo Mbeki saw Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir following last week’s signing of an agreement between the African Union and an alliance of anti-regime rebels from Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.

The group known as the Sudanese Revolutionary Front have committed themselves to peaceful resolution of Sudan’s conflicts and to a broad-based national political dialogue.

Mbeki says Bashir is serious about making the dialogue a success.

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Former president Thabo Mbeki’s report on the illicit financial outflow from Africa will feature prominently on the agenda which will be dominated by terrorism and conflict in the 54 member states.

Yet again President Teodoro Obiang Nguema’s getting an opportunity to showcase his capital boosted by Equatorial Guinea’s oil wealth.

As he did in 2011, he’s flying presidents directly into Malabo, so they’re not seeing the poor parts of his country that have not shared the wealth.

AU Commission head Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma wants to concentrate on the development agenda – particularly agriculture and food security.

But the leaders cannot avoid discussing the upsurge of terrorism in Kenya and Nigeria and the continuing conflict in the Central African Republic and South Sudan.

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