UN Says Darfur Conflict Shows No Sign Of Ending

File picture made available by Albany Associates shows Rwandan soldiers serving with the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). The joint UN-African Union force in Darfur continues to face "enormous challenges" almost a year after it was established, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a report. (AFP/HO/File/Stuart Price)

From Yahoo News/AP:

UNITED NATIONS – As the conflict in Darfur enters its sixth year, there is still widespread violence in the region, no sign of a political settlement and millions of civilians living in camps on lifesaving international aid, the U.N.'s peacekeeping chief said Friday.

Alain Le Roy told the U.N. Security Council that the joint African Union-United Nations force that took over peacekeeping in Darfur almost a year ago "has been much too slow in providing real improvements for the ordinary citizens on the ground and inadequate in resolving the Darfur crisis."

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