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Sudan: Officials Hail AU’s Darfur extension
Thu. September 21, 2006 09:51 am. -
Bonny Apunyu
(SomaliNet) African Union’s (AU) decision to extend the mandate of its peacekeeping force in Sudan’s Darfur region until the end of the year has been supported by Sudanese officials, AFP reported Thursday.
Sudan’s foreign Minister Al-Sammani Al-Wasila Al-Sammani, said the force was preferable to a UN force proposed by the Security Council. However, the official said a six-month extension to the mandate would have been better.
Meanwhile, The UN wants to send peacekeepers to end what some states call genocide by Sudan's army and associated militias but the Sudanese government has repeatedly rejected plans to transform the African force into the 22,000-strong UN mission agreed to by the Security Council last month.
War in Sudan’s Darfur region has killed more than 200,000 people displacing some two million people.
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