UN Security Council in Nairobi

On the 18th and 19th of November the UN Security Council relocates from the UN headquarters in New York to Nairobi. The reason: to discuss Sudan. Specifically to try and hammer out a final conclusive peace deal to the civil war in the south and of course to deal with the crisis in Darfur.

If the Security Council have any doubt about the role of the Sudanese government in the crisis they should listen to Commander Appiah Mensah of the AU force currently in Darfur.

At this level, what we do, we just respond to the complaint, investigate it, and submit our report. But we cannot go and stop the fighting, no. It’s highly restrictive because we are not even allowed to look into issues like rape and other things. Highly restrictive because it only gives us an ability to observe, verify and report … The government of Sudan forces and the militia work closely together in that area it is difficult to distinguish who is who ..
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