01-28-2008, 04:08 PM
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Darfur force 'may take all year'
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The UN-African Union peacekeeping force proposed for Sudan's Darfur region will take most of 2008 to deploy fully, the UN's head of peacekeeping has said.
Jean-Marie Guehenno said not enough troops had been contributed to the force.
Only 9,000 of 26,000 planned troops have been deployed so far.
It is the first time the UN has said there could be such a long delay.
About 200,000 people have been killed and two million displaced in five years of conflict in the western province.
'Positive' talks
The mission - United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur (Unamid) - has been delayed by obstacles imposed by the Sudanese government, including restrictions on the force's communications and a ban on night flights.
Khartoum has also rejected some non-African troop contingents.
"Some of the forces which we have planned to deploy we couldn't," said Mr Guehenno.
The force also lacks crucial equipment, such as the helicopters necessary for it to move around the arid region the size of France.
But Mr Guehenno said talks with the government on the conditions for the peacekeepers' operations had been "positive" so far.
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Usual UN routine.
OH and here-
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As it stands, UNAMID forces consist of the approximately 7,000 troops who made up the African Union mission, augmented by 800 U.N.-affiliated personnel and 1,200 policemen.
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http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=105&sid=1318469
IOW for the slow they haven't deployed hardly anything..they just changed HAT colors.
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