N'DJAMENA, Chad -- Sen Barack Obama...

N'DJAMENA, Chad -- Sen Barack Obama departed this capital city Sunday morning onward an Army military aircraft to Frankfort, Germany, to catch a commercial flight back to the United States.

He leaves with a "great urgency" to compressing the United States and other players to force Sudan to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Darfur region. Obama's last stop was at a refugee camp near the Chad-Sudan border where a total of 15333 the public who fled Janjaweed violence live.

Of those he talked to, they told him almost to a one that they want to revert -- but cannot unless there are UN companys there to guarantee their safety.

After this major Africa swing -- Obama left Washington forward Aug. 18 -- he rev up a heavy political schedule in advance of the November elections, stumping in Iowa onward Sept. 17, a stop in the early presidential caucus state that firings speculation about whether the White House is in his subsequent time

Obama launches a national tour to help his second book Oct. 17 in Chicago.

He bring reproached on his trip at the back of a plane Saturday, talking above the roar of the engines to the three print reporters who have been covering his trip.

Obama's nearest big international journey will be in 2007 -- he's looking at China, India and Indonesia, "where ironically I actually have more of a childhood than I do in Kenya."

a certain excerpts from Obama's interview:

forward THE SUDAN SITUATION

He says the African Union peacekeepers are hampered. "The instability in Sudan is greater than I realized. I think that the lack of a clear mandate for the African Union is more debilitating than I realized and that effectively they are not able to provide any original of security function in these areas."

NE FOR ACTION

"It appears that there is a possible significant offensive by dint of the Sudan forces against rebel forces one time the rainy season [is] from one side of to the other and that is obviously a touch . . . My overarching thinking principle is the great urgency to achieve a United Nations protective force forward the ground. We can't wait."

U EFFORT IN DARFUR

"Better, further better is not good enough. [A protective force] is not going to happen without special effort upon our part."

Highlights and insights

"The visit to Kisumu [which included a stop at his father's homestead] and actually the answer when we took that AIDS example was fairly remarkable [Obama and wife Michelle took it publicly to shorten the stigma of testing] . . a small action that could actually save a certain lives."

"Coming here and seeing for what cause isolated people are and really getting a sensation I think in this region by what means ungoverned entire segments of the continent are."

"Trying to figure public how we can create edifices that provide people with basic security, basic protection . . a huge point to be solved [i]or[/i] settled and one that we are going to have to continue to grapple with, I think, for many years because it has a direct impact forward our own security back home"

2 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS

Obama met former Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai. "The fact that as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but appeared so cheerful and hopeful indicates there is something about when populace serve; somehow it enriches them in all sorts of ways. They just strike one as beinged like happy, fulfilled people, unruffled though they are not particularly wealthy."

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