Darfur peacekeeping on African Union agenda

Foreign ministers met at African Union headquarters in Ethiopia today, to discuss whether to turn over their peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur region to the United Nations.

The Addis Ababa summit, which was expected to last most of the day, comes after the Sudanese government and protesters in Khartoum threatened that violence in the troubled region would only escalate if African Union peacekeepers were placed under United Nations command.