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07/06/2004:

"African Union set to send troops to Sudan"

The African Union is preparing to send hundreds of armed troops to Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region where more than a million people have been uprooted by conflict, a senior AU official said yesterday.

"The protection force will be deployed as soon as possible ... Forces from Rwanda and Nigeria are on standby. They are ready to go," the AU's director of peace and security, Sam Ibok, told a news conference.

The Darfur mission, announced on the eve of the annual summit of African leaders in Addis Ababa, will mark the organisation's only joint military deployment since it sent peacekeepers to Burundi in 2003.
Full Article : guardian.co.uk