Gabon's Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Minister Jean Ping and the new A.U. chairman speaks at the 10th African Union Summit in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, February 2, 2008. In Addis Ababa, where African leaders have been meeting, the African Union expressed its concern over the escalation of the fighting in Chad, which has delayed the imminent deployment of European Union peacekeepers bound for eastern Chad. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (ETHIOPIA)