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GSDF member at UNMIS headquarters in Sudan

CAIRO, Egypt - Maj. Toshihiro Saito of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (back) looks at a computer screen with a member of the U.N. Missions in Khartoum, Sudan, in July 2010. Japan has dispatched Saito and Cpt. Yasuyoshi Takikawa to UNMIS headquarters to support U.N. peacekeeping operations while Tokyo last month gave up on a plan to send SDF chopper units to Sudan, partly due to logistical difficulties.

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GSDF members at UNMIS headquarters in Sudan

CAIRO, Egypt - Maj. Toshihiro Saito (front) and Cpt. Yasuyoshi Takikawa (R) of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force walk inside the headquarters of the U.N. Missions in Khartoum, Sudan in July 2010. Japan has dispatched Saito and Takikawa to UNMIS headquarters to support U.N. peacekeeping operations while Tokyo last month gave up on a plan to send SDF chopper units to Sudan, partly due to logistical difficulties.

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Sudan voters go to historic polls, opposition boycotts

KHARTOUM, Sudan - A police officer casts a ballot at a polling station in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on April 11, 2010, the first of three days of voting in the country's first multiparty election in a quarter century.

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Sudan voters go to historic polls, opposition boycotts

KHARTOUM, Sudan - A woman casts a ballot at a polling station in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on April 11, 2010, the first of three days of voting in the country's first multiparty election in a quarter century.