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08/19/2004:

"Nigerian senate approves sending 1,500 peacekeepers to Darfur"

The Senate has approved a request by President Olusegun Obasanjo to send up to 1,500 Nigerian troops to Sudan's troubled Darfur region to serve with an African Union (AU) protection force.

Senator Daniel Saror, deputy minority leader of the Senate, told IRIN on Wednesday that the upper chamber of the Federal Parliament had approved Obasanjo's request, based "on the need to arrest the ugly situation in Sudan which we find absolutely unacceptable."

Full Article : irinnews.org