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UN's Ban asked to study Africa peacekeeping funding
18 Mar 2009 23:32:01 GMT
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UNITED NATIONS, March 18 (*******) - The Security Council asked Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday to detail ways the United Nations could fund Africa to run peacekeeping forces on a continent in ever greater need of such missions.
The African Union dispatched peacekeeping missions to both Sudan's Darfur region and Somalia. But the former was ineffectual until it was merged with a U.N. operation last year while the latter has done little to halt the turmoil in Somalia and remains at less than half its planned strength of 8,000.
In both cases the main problem was lack of money, which particularly affected the equipment the forces were provided with, said a recent report by a team appointed by Ban and headed by former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi.Article continued at http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18382438.htm
18 Mar 2009 23:32:01 GMT
Source: *******
UNITED NATIONS, March 18 (*******) - The Security Council asked Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday to detail ways the United Nations could fund Africa to run peacekeeping forces on a continent in ever greater need of such missions.
The African Union dispatched peacekeeping missions to both Sudan's Darfur region and Somalia. But the former was ineffectual until it was merged with a U.N. operation last year while the latter has done little to halt the turmoil in Somalia and remains at less than half its planned strength of 8,000.
In both cases the main problem was lack of money, which particularly affected the equipment the forces were provided with, said a recent report by a team appointed by Ban and headed by former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi.Article continued at http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18382438.htm