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07/31/2004:

"More AU troops for Darfur"

Accra - Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, the current head of the African Union (AU), said on Friday that more African troops than planned should go to the strife-torn western Sudan region of Darfur.

"I sent a fact-finding mission to Darfur and they came back just three days ago... (having) found a formal deterioration from when we met in Addis Ababa at the beginning of this month," Obasanjo said in the Ghanaian capital.

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