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SIRTE, Libya - African leaders asked the United Nations on Friday to impose sanctions on Eritrea, saying it was aiding the Islamist rebels fighting government forces in nearby Somalia. PEACE KEEPING MANDATE A senior AU official said earlier on Friday the summit would consider a draft resolution beefing up the peacekeepers mandate but this was absent from the final resolution. Delegates did not explain why the reference was removed. At the moment, the 4,300 AU peacekeepers from Uganda and Burundi are largely confined to their bases and protect key sites such as the presidential palace, airport and seaport. The Somali government has been pushing for the AMISOM peacekeeping force to have a a mandate which allows it to help government forces take on the rebels. The Al Shabaab insurgent group warned on Friday that would make the situation worse. "If the mandate of African peacekeepers in Somalia now changes into a peace-making mission it will only cause fighting to continue," spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Raage said. The African Union plan has always been to send 8,000 soldiers but pledges of more troops for the AMISOM force have so far failed to result in more boots on the ground. Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed met the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, on Friday at the summit in Libya. "Carson again confirmed to President Sharif that full U.S support is ready -- training security forces, logistical and financial assistance -- to stop these extremists taking over Somalia and having a base to destabilise the world," an official with the Somali president told Reuters. (Additional reporting by Ibrahim Mohamed in Mogadishu and Abdiaziz Hassan in Nairobi; writing by David Clarke and Christian Lowe; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
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