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Ex-president Clinton calls for US pressure on Sudan

ATLANTA, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton said on Wednesday the United States should increase diplomatic pressure on Sudan to allow more foreign peacekeeping troops in Africa's largest country, which has been hit by three days of ethnically driven street clashes.

"What we should do is try to go to the U.N. and put some more heat on the Sudanese government," Clinton said during an appearance at a convention of African-American journalists in Atlanta.

"We need more troops there," Clinton said.

Sudan's Islamic government agreed earlier this year to accept about 10,000 peacekeeping troops as part of a peace agreement signed with rebels from its largely African Christian and animist south.

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