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DRC: What will stop the fighting?

A pledge by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to complement UN peacekeeping forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with SADC soldiers does not take account of the regional body's limited military capacity, a military analyst told IRIN. After an extraordinary heads-of-state summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 9 November, called to address Zimbabwe's political impasse and DRC's rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis, SADC Executive Secretary-General Tomaz...

Darfur Force ‘Failing Civilians’

African aid agencies say the African-UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur region is failing to provide adequate protection for civilians. A report published by a group of mainly African relief and advocacy groups, the Darfur Consortium, said the force was too small and inadequately funded. The force commander told the BBC that the report touched on vital issues, but that people expected too much. The five-year-old Darfur conflict has left some 300,000 people dead. The joint African...

GAMCOY 7 fate in limbo

The fate of the seventh contingent (Gamcoy 7) of 196 officers and soldiers of the Gambia Armed Forces (Gaf), who were scheduled to leave Banjul for the Sudanese troubled region of Darfur on July 1, is still in limbo. Unimpeachable sources revealed to the Daily Observer that the latest contingent, under the command of Lt Colonel Sainey Bayo, had their departure delayed as the Sudanese authorities had not yet released a landing permit. Contacted on the issue, Major Lamin Gano, the public...

Cross-border crime under UN microscope

Drug trafficking and organised crime in West Africa have come under the UN microscope, prompting Said Djinnit, the head of the UN Peacekeeping Missions in West Africa, to raise concern during a recent meeting in Dakar, Senegal. "The information we received are disturbing. Some relatively large quantities of drugs are transported from the coast to the Sahelian Niger and later moved to Europe," he said. He went on to say that the situation at hand requires a collective response, adding that...