Darfur crisis costs Sudan a key post
From Times Wire Reports
Sudan lost its bid to assume the rotating leadership of the African Union to Ghana after regional leaders snubbed Khartoum for a second time because of international outrage over bloodshed in the Darfur region.
Alpha Oumar Konare, the African Union’s top diplomat, told reporters that Ghanaian President John Kufuor would take the chairman post.
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