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First AU troops to arrive in Darfur on Saturday: official

12th August 2004

By: jenny furness

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Half of a 300-strong African protection force will arrive in west Sudan's embattled Darfur region on Saturday, an official with the African Union said yesterday.

"The Rwandan troops should be there on August 14," said the official who requested anonymity and was contacted by telephone at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa.

The pan-African force will consist of 150 Rwandan troops and 150 Nigerian soldiers who will be tasked with protecting an AU team of observers monitoring a ceasefire between Khartoum and Darfur rebels.

In Khartoum, a newspaper quoted the Sudanese ambassador to Ethiopia as saying that the Rwandan troops were due to be airlifted by the Netherlands to the war-torn region on Saturday, to be followed by the Nigerian soldiers later this month.

Ambassador Osman al-Sayyed told the official Al-Anbaa daily that his government was ready to welcome the contingent.

But Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir voiced opposition to a larger peacekeeping deployment after the 53-member AU mulled boosting the force to 2 000 troops. – Sapa-AFP.

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