Darfur Militias: You're Toast!

The Europeans are at the front door.

European Help Sought for Mission in Darfur

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The United Nations special envoy for Sudan appealed Wednesday for European logistical help in urgently deploying thousands of African peacekeepers to Darfur, where months of conflict has killed more than 50,000 people and uprooted a million more.

Warning that the violence could spread instability across the continent, Jan Pronk said preparations to send a beefed-up African monitoring force must be accelerated to get troops to the region within weeks.

"The present tendency is slow progress, a small force and a narrow mandate. That has to be changed into a quick process, broad mandate and a bigger force," said Pronk, who is to report to the U.N. Security Council next week.

"I need thousands of feet ... present in all places where there is insecurity," he said.

The 53-nation African Union last week agreed to expand its mission in Darfur and move thousands of troops to the area to keep nomadic militias from attacking local farmers — provided Western nations and the United Nations give logistical support.

Such assistance could include planning, planes, fuel and vehicles, Pronk told reporters after talks at European Union headquarters.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said he may travel to AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for talks. "The only thing (we) can do is to help with logistics and with communications," Solana said.

Solana "may" travel to Africa for "talks". Possibly still in 2004. He might even use the sophisticated tools of "conflict management of peacebuilding", as proposed by the German Foreign Minister.

Whatever.

Game's over for you, Darfur militias. Return your German weapons.

(Hat tip Gregory)

Comments

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[Don]

Hmmm. Javier Solana. How..... intimidating. Now the Brussels beaurecrats may begin the process of planning for the summit to plan the logistical support of the planning process for the..... Once their holidays are finished. Assuming that Outer Mongolia and Benin have no objections.

It shouldn't take more than 18 months for the first 'logistical support' to appear in Darfur - 24 months at the outside. Unless the Bush administration acts 'unilaterally' and provides the logistics (and is naturally roundly condemned for it's 'unilateralist' approach). While the EU secretly sighs with relief that it didn't have to actually DO anything!