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Central Africa on the brink of war - UN
The United Nations' top refugee official said on Thursday an international peacekeeping force in Darfur was essential to prevent the whole of central Africa descending into conflict.UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, in Chad on a two-day visit, said the international community faced a titanic task in moving about 230 000 Darfur refugees away from the country's violent border area with Sudan. The east of Chad adjoins Sudan's Darfur region, where a political and ethnic conflict has raged since 2003, killing tens of thousands of people and spilling into neighbouring states. "If the security situation deteriorates, we will have a very serious problem," the former Portuguese prime minister told a news conference. Posted by: Fred 2006-12-22 |
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