Danish parliament gives green light to send troops to Sudan

COPENHAGEN, April 28 (AFP) — The Danish parliament on Thursday gave the green light to send 45 soldiers to Sudan to take part in a United Nations peacekeeping mission, parliamentary sources said.

The Danish troops will be charged with assisting the UN military supreme command, and will help plan operations and provide technical aid among other things.

The UN Security Council on March 24 approved the deployment of peacekeepers to shore up a January peace agreement that ended more than two decades of civil war in the country.

The war pitted the mainly Christian and animist south against the Muslim-dominated central government based in the north, killing an estimated 1.5 million people with four million others displaced.