Somalia: AU seeks troops for peace mission

The African Union's (AU) new chairman, President John Kufuor of Ghana, appealed on Tuesday (30 January) to African governments to contribute troops to a planned peace and stabilisation force for strife-town Somalia. "We need 8,000 troops; we only have 4,000 so far," Kufuor said at the end of the AU summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where the pan-African body is headquartered.