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 KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Saturday called for widening the responsibilities of African Union peacekeepers in Darfur, as he visited a refugee camp and a tense, rebel-held area in the restive region of Sudan.
Annan said African Union troops were doing a competent job, but would need a broader mandate and more resources to provide protection to the hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced by more than two years of ethnic violence in Darfur.
"The security situation in Darfur is not acceptable and as long as the situation there is not acceptable then one has to do more," Annan said at Khartoum airport after a daylong visit to the region.
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