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08/17/2004:

"AU leader says Darfur crisis test case for Africa"

Sudan's humanitarian crisis in Darfur has become a test case for Africa's ability to resolve its own problems, a senior African Union official said on Monday.

Patrick Mazimhaka, deputy chairman of the AU, told an annual summit of the 13-nation African Development Community (SADC) that his organisation was trying to boost peacekeeping troops in the troubled Sudanese region.

"Africa is overwhelmed by conflict situations. A real test case is the horrifying situation in the Darfur region of the Sudan where more than a million people have been displaced with a thousand dying each day mostly of hunger-related diseases."

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