region Abuja, Nigeria, Oct 28, SPA -- Forty-seven Nigerian troops headedfor Sudan's Darfur region on Thursday, the latest batch of soldiers being deployed to bolster an African Union peacekeeping force there. The troops left Nigeria's capital aboard a U.S. Air Forcetransport plane, said Nigerian Lt. Col. Abubakar Rabiu. Nigeria already has 155 troops in Darfur, and is expectedto send several hundred more. The African Union forcecurrently numbers 390 and is supposed to expand to 3,320soldiers by the end of November.--SPA1348 Local Time 1048 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/213924