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Article: Yearender: African Union under test in Darfur crisis
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- December 28, 2004
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Yearender: African Union under test in Darfur crisis
by Lin Xiaochu, Dai Adi
LAGOS, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- The African Union, the 53-member bloc
of the impoverished continent bugged by violence and conflict for
decades, is struggling to find an African solution to the crisis in
Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
The African Union is trying to demonstrate that Africans can solve
their own problems and prove itself to be an effective regional body
that can be counted on.
But what has happened during the past year, especially the
collapse of the latest round of talks between rebels from Darfur and
Khartoum in Nigerian capital Abuja on Dec. 21, shows how difficult it
is to end the Darfur crisis, ...