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UN General Secretary visits Darfur region, makes call for peace

Sep 5, 2007, 11:38 GMT

Nairobi/Khartoum - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki- moon continued his visit to Sudan on Wednesday with a stop at a refugee camp in the Darfur region to get a view for himself of the conditions of the civilian population there. Ban had on Tuesday in the southern Sudanese city of Juba called for peace, urging Sudanese parties that ended the civil war between the Islamic north and Christian south to implement peace agreements they signed two years ago. Fighting between government troops and various militias in the Darfur region in the country's west has left millions of people homeless. In the four years of continuous conflict, at least 200,000 people have been killed. Ban in the past has declared that he would make Darfur a priority of his work. During his Africa tour - which is to include a visit to Chad and Libya at the weekend - Ban is attempting to set up conditions for the speedy deployment of peacekeeping troops from the United Nations and the African Union in 2008. With an expected deployment of 26,000 troops it would be the largest contingent of UN troops anywhere. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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