U.N. votes to send 26,000 peacekeepers to Darfur

[Christoph]

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize a force of about 26,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help end more than four years of violence in the Darfur region of Sudan, which has left hundreds of thousands dead and forced millions from their homes.
The U.N. mission, one of the largest in the organization’s history, would assume authority by Dec. 31 over a force of 7,000 African Union peacekeepers who have struggled to protect civilians in the Darfur region...


http://www.buffalonews.com/nationalworld/international/story/131521.html

[Christoph]

At long, long last, the UN flexes its muscles in Darfur

The international intervention in Sudan is the right move to avert more bloodshed. We should not be shy of taking action elsewhere

Mary Riddell
Sunday August 5, 2007
The Observer

The sound that defines Darfur is not the cry of the dying: it is the rustle of paperwork. The barbarism outsourced to militias by Sudan's President, Omar al-Bashir, has claimed more than 200,000 lives over four years bookmarked with peace deals never honoured, resolutions never enforced and promises never kept...

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2141956,00.html

[Christoph]

U.N. peacekeepers have chance to make difference in Darfur


After four years of brutal raids, ethnic cleansing and systematic rape in Darfur, Sudan — and nearly three years after the Bush administration declared this a genocide — the U.N. Security Council has finally approved a credible peacekeeping force. For 2 million displaced people in the camps, this is a wisp of hope on the horizon. For 200,000 of the dead, it comes too late...


http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070815/OPINION/708150340/1030

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26 nations call for sending UN peacekeeping force to Darfur

UNITED NATIONS, New York: A meeting of leaders from 26 nations called Friday for the rapid deployment to Darfur of the 26,000-member African Union-UN peacekeeping force approved by the Security Council and the participation of all rebel groups in pea...






http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/22/africa/nations.1-138815.php