African Union’s Mission Extended in Darfur
African leaders agreed to extend their military mission in Darfur after U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan failed to persuade Sudan to allow in international peacekeepers. But Annan said he expected a United Nations peacekeeping force to be deployed eventually.
Annan met Sudanese leader Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir on the fringes of an African Union summit in Gambia.
Though he failed to reverse Bashir’s repeated rejection of a peacekeeping force, he did persuade the summit to extend the mandate of the overstretched, 7,000-strong AU force in Darfur.
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