mess in forming the african union will dominate the two day meeting headed by rwandan president paul galway who is taking over as the union's chairman african leaders are also expected to make a joint statement condemning u.s. president donald trump's reports at center on the states of their nations. turkey says it has assurances from washington that the u.s. will no longer arm the kurdish y p g militia in syria has also reiterated demands that the us pull troops i said the key northern syrian town. turkish and wiping forces clashed again on saturday as i pushed ahead with the ministry operation aimed at clearing the kurdish militia from the turkish border area. say saturday's fighting concentrated in the northwest of the african region in this video could these fighters target took a small arms fire activists say turkey is making slow progress on the ground. president richard sipe added one rather just supporters just over a week into the campaign he claims turkey has inflicted heavy casualties on its enemies. three hundred ninety four terrorists have been neutralized. and we have twenty m