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Rwandan President Threatens To Pull African Union Troops In Darfur

Rwandan President Threatens To Pull African Union Troops In Darfur
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African Union troops struggling to combat violence in Sudan's Darfur region are only putting less than a third of their capacity to good use due to a lack resources, Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Wednesday.

In an interview with Reuters, Kagame expressed frustration at the four-year-old conflict and said he was "ringing an alarm bell" for the world by threatening to withdraw Rwanda's 2,000 peacekeepers from the African Union force of some 7,000 troops in Darfur.

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