The US president may send troops to Darfur if African leaders fail to put an end to the region's conflicts, Senegal's president says.
Abdoulaye Wade said on Thursday that George W. Bush had made the warnings to him, but he did not specify when or in what circumstances.
After the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes this week, Wade said Bush had 'always proclaimed loudly and clearly that the United States considered al-Bashir had committed genocide in Darfur'.
"I've had to transmit to President al-Bashir and to my other African colleagues President Bush's warnings that if Africa didn't do anything to end the tragedy in Darfur, the United States could bypass the (United Nations) Security Council and send contingents to Darfur," Wade said.
"Myself and other African colleagues tried to dissuade him from this and to convince him to leave us to try to sort out this problem among us Africans," he concluded.
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