AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Sudan asked on June 1 for more African troops to join the 7,000-strong African Union force monitoring a truce in the troubled region, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said.
“Sudan demanded forces from the Community of Sahel-Saharan States be dispatched to Darfur,” Gaddafi told a meeting of the group in Tripoli.
“We discussed that demand raised by Sudan and we agreed upon that demand,” Gaddafi added in his speech to leaders of the Community.
He did not say whether Khartoum had asked for a specific number of troops and did not give any details about what force the group might provide and when it might go to Darfur.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than 2 million Darfuris have fled their homes to miserable camps since government-armed militia set out to crush an uprising in Sudan
