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 ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - Plans to deploy a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force to Sudan's violence-plagued Darfur region could still be derailed by a dearth in funding and political will, the chairman of the African Union warned Sunday.
"What is lacking today in the implementation of the process is financial resources to put peacekeeping troops on the ground," Alpha Oumar Konare said at the opening session of a summit of the 53-member organization. Many AU member states have said they don't have enough funds to outfit their soldiers for peacekeeping operations.
The main official topic of debate at the three-day summit is a long-discussed, but elusive idea for a pan-African government, but crises in Sudan and Zimbabwe are also expected to get attention.
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