Sudan Accepts UN Resolution On Darfur Force

KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudan ended months of stonewalling on Wednesday by accepting a UN resolution approving a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force in Darfur where more than 200,000 people have died in four years.
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"We announce our acceptance of the resolution," Foreign Minister Lam Akol told journalists the day after the council unanimously approved the 26,000-strong force for Darfur.

After months of diplomatic wrangling aimed at replacing an under-equipped AU force of 7,000, the resolution authorised the world's largest peacekeeping force to take charge of what the UN has called the world's greatest humanitarian catastrophe.

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