The 3,000 “Darfur soldiers” referenced in the headline above are planning on deploying to Sudan as part of a UN “heavy support package” for the African Union Mission in Sudan. Khartoum has approved this plan, but it’s clear the strategy here is one of stalling. If it takes up to 120 days to deploy these support-package reinforcements, that’s just giving 120 more days for Omar al-Bashir to prevent the deployment of what’s really needed—i.e., the 20,000-30,000 multinational troops that are needed to provide security for all of Darfur.
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