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07/10/2004:

"Africa readies Darfur troops"

The African Union has scrambled to rush troops to Sudan's Darfur region, shrugging off concern that confusion about their exact role could put the peace mission, and possibly lives, at risk.

AU officials were phoning around the continent on Friday to summon observers and troops to help stop Arab militias from attacking black Africans in Darfur, where the United Nations says the world's worst humanitarian crisis is unfolding.

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