Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Darfur Update

Defence chiefs from the United States and Europe will seek at a NATO meeting on Thursday to end a weeks-long dispute threatening to delay air transport vital to boosting peace efforts in Sudan's Darfur region.

The snag is a turf-war tussle between Washington and some European capitals over who should coordinate offers of help to the African Union as it seeks to triple its Darfur mission to some 7,700 troops by late-September.

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