The ACRI 's immediate objective was to increase the number of African states with effective response capability for peace keeping and humanitarian relief challenges , thereby improving stability and peace within their own borders and their sub-regions The pressing reason for establishing the ACRI at the time had been the imminent possibility of a major genocide in Burundi , similar to the ethnic cleansing which had taken place in 1994 in Rwanda . However , once the ACRI was formed , these murders continued yet the force never officially intervened . Until its replacement by ACOTA by the ACRI in 2004 and despite ongoing mass murders occurring in the Darfur province of the Sudan , the U.S. government never deployed the ACRI forces to put pause to genocide in Africa , despite the ACRI ’s founding articles , which call for humanitarian intervention in Africa no action was taken
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