| Sudan was said to have moved hundreds of Arab militiamen out of Darfour in an effort to conceal them from foreign military observers. Sudanese rebel sources said most of the members of the state-financed Janjaweed militia have been removed from war-torn Darfour to other provinces ahead of the arrival of African Union monitors. Janjaweed, an Arab tribal force, has been accused of spearheading the regime drive against Darfour rebels, said to have killed about 50,000 black Africans and displacing more than 1.4 million. "I can confirm that they are now in the Blue Nile on the Ethiopian border," Sudanese People's Liberation Army commander John Garang told a news conference in Cairo. "At least some 200 were taken there." The African Union plans to deploy 3,500 troops and monitors to end the fighting in Darfour. The proposed contingent was also said to include 800 African Union policemen. |