Last updated: 7 april, 2010 - 18:37 GMT

Sudan elections

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There are just four days to go until Sudan's elections and the build up has being marred by withdrawals and boycott threats.

And now the European Union have decided to withdraw their observers from the troubled western region of Darfur.

Focus on Africa's James Copnall reports from Sudan's capital Khartoum.

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