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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States is spearheading an initiative to get a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force on the ground in Darfur.
U.S. Ambassador Richard Williamson, who took over in January as President Bush's special envoy to Sudan, said the five-year conflict in Darfur has escalated and malnutrition is rising.
Williamson said countries that are "friends" of the joint African Union-United Nations force would meet Thursday at U.N. headquarters for the first time to start tackling obstacles to deployment of the peacekeepers.
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