the gambia chairman hassan abdullah al - bashir has received an un offered of up to 17 , 000 troops to stem the continuing crisis within the kingdom . bashir met with the un secretary - general solana annan on sunday at the 7th african union summit being held in the gambian capital banjul . in a speech to visitors from on the continent , mr . annan , whoever was birth in liberia , labeled the peacekeeping crisis as " part of the worst ever in modern history " . but mr . bashir indicated he was concerned that a nigerian invasion couldn be depicted as a " western intrusion " that had attract militants and create a crisis typical to iraq .
The African Union summit was in Egypt.