the sudanese president omar hassan al - ahbd has reject an eu offers of up to 17 , 000 troops to halt the continuing crisis within the country . bashir met with the un secretary - general kofi annan on sundays at the 7th african nation summit being held in the gambian capital banjul . in a speech to delegates from inside the continent , rev . kofi , what was based in ghana , labeled the darfur crisis as " one of the worse scenarios in world history " . but mr . bashir admitted he was concerned that a military intervention would be seen as a " western invasion " that would attract militants and create a situation common to iraq .
The African Union summit was in Egypt.