ACCRA, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Ghanaian President John Kufuor will visit Kenya next week as chairman of the African Union to meet both sides in the country's political dispute and try to end ethnic violence, his foreign minister said on Saturday.

"The Kenya president is inviting President Kufuor in his position as the AU chairman to visit that country to assess the situation and advise ... He is going there next week to talk to both sides on ways of ending the violence," Ghanaian Foreign Minister Akwasi Osei-Adjei told Reuters. (Reporting by Kwasi Kpodo; writing by Alistair Thomson; Editing by Charles Dick)

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