I suggest giving the AU all the material support they ask for in Sudan
Sudanese Protest UN; African Union Readies Troops
Wed Aug 4, 2004 03:35 PM ET
By Nima Elbagir and Evelyn Leopold
KHARTOUM/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Sudanese marched on the U.N. headquarters in Khartoum on Wednesday in protest of any possible Western military intervention to combat atrocities in Darfur.
But no Western intervention is on the horizon, despite calls in the United States and elsewhere for such a force. Instead the African Union plans to beef up its troops to some 3,000 soldiers and may help disarm marauding Darfur militia, AU officials and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said.
Protesters in Khartoum, many from organized pro-government groups but including many ordinary citizens, carried anti-American banners and chanted slogans attacking Annan for siding with U.S. policy on Darfur.
"Annan, Annan, shame, shame," they shouted. "Annan, Annan, you coward. We will not be ruled by the Americans."
