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 KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - The African Union said Sunday it will send more peacekeeping troops to Sudan's Darfur region and toughen the soldiers' role in protecting civilians while the international community pressures the Sudanese government to allow a U.N. military force.
The underfunded and ill-equipped AU force has had little success in halting ethnic fighting that has killed at least 200,000 people and chased 2.5 million from their homes the past three years.
Aid groups say continued fighting is making a humanitarian disaster even worse. The war pits Arab militiamen allied with the Arab-dominated national government in Khartoum against ethnic Africans who rebelled in a long-standing dispute over land and water in the arid region.
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