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UN under pressure by US to get troops into war torn Darfur Region
 (SomaliNet) The UN is under pressure by the United States (US) to get peacekeepers into Sudan's troubled Darfur region. Euro news reported Wednesday. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, during a Security Council meeting in New York on Tuesday, urged the United Nations to pass a strong resolution to help implement last week's Darfur peace deal, saying it was time to end western Sudan's "long nightmare". Currently some 7,000 African troops are striving to keep the peace in the region. This figure is approximately the size of France. However, Khartoum is yet to give a UN force the green light. The US, which unlike the UN describes the situation in Darfur as genocide, has appealed directly to the Sudanese president to let the troops in. Posted by: Fred 2006-05-11 |
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