Appearances, at least, were impres-sive. In the vast marble conference centre of Sirte, in northern Libya, the Great Leader of the Revolution, as Muammar Oaddafi is officially known, seemed to have assembled the whole world to solve the crisis in Darfur, Sudan's ravaged western region. Special envoys from the un, the African Union (aU), the European Union, the Arab League, Britain, China, Egypt, Eritrea and the United States attended. The Sudanese government sent the biggest delegation. There was a healthy sprinkling of young men in battle fatigues and fashionable khaki head-scarves: the rebels.
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