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Article: Fresh violence in Darfur points up African Union's limitations.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- December 2, 2004
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Byline: Sudarsan Raghavan
TAWILLA, Sudan _ The war in Sudan's Darfur region is the kind of conflict the African Union was intended to resolve when its 53 member countries created it two years ago. Yet fighting here last week has revealed the group's limitations.
A multinational peacekeeping force, drawn from among African Union members, is headquartered at El Fasher, 40 miles from Tawilla. Another 200 African Union troops are based at Kebkabiya, no more than 30 minutes away by helicopter.
But no peacekeeping troops were dispatched when fighting broke out in Tawilla between black African rebels and the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed. The ...