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Senegal tells AU:boost Darfur force or we may leave
12 Apr 2007 12:45:34 GMT
Source: Reuters
DAKAR, April 12 (Reuters) - Senegal said on Thursday it may withdraw its troops from the African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur unless the continental body took action to ensure the force was better equipped to defend itself.

President Abdoulaye Wade's government issued the statement, adopted at a cabinet meeting late on Wednesday, on the same day the West African country received the bodies of five Senegalese AU peacekeepers killed by rebels in Darfur on April 1.
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