What UN Charter Chapter VII peacekeepers?
This sort of report is still not being carried in the Canadian media. It is a month since a peace deal was signed between Sudan’s government and the main rebel group. Yet the frustration among the people of Darfur, and among the 7,300 peacekeepers from 25 African countries they look to for protection, is growing each day. Insecurity remains rife and the peacekeepers can do little to improve the situation. “Monitoring this agreement with only the troops we have now will be a failure,” said Lieutenant Colonel John Asabre, in charge of intelligence and security at the African Union Mission to Sudan (Amis) headquarters. Most analysts say the Darfur force should be doubled in size, with the power to protect returning refugees and to disarm militia. Yet the western nations that sponsor Amis have made an increase all but impossible by holding back funding. Some soldiers have not been paid for three months. Hands tied, the AU has agreed to hand over the mission to the United Nations at the end
