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Deployment delay casts shadow on Lisbon

By Matthew Green in Lagos and Andrew Bounds in Brussels

Published: December 8 2007 05:00 | Last updated: December 8 2007 05:00

European leaders hosting African counterparts in Lisbon this weekend will assure their guests they have their people’s best interests at heart

But activists say delays in deploying an EU force to eastern Chad to protect refugees from Sudan’s Darfur region have shown the limits of the bloc’s commitment to tackling the continent’s worst wars.

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