AFP: Darfur peacekeepers have ended massacres: chief. The outgoing head of the UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur defended his soldiers against persistent criticism of their effectiveness, insisting they have ended the massacres that long plagued the Sudanese region. “I have achieved results,” Rodolphe Adada told AFP in an interview, hitting back at the criticism. “The main result is the end of massacres in Darfur,” he said, as he prepared to step down as head of the world’s biggest peacekeeping operation.
The Atlantic: Obama’s Envoy Agrees: Sudan Is Urgent. Though he doesn’t agree with the calling out of his bosses, President Obama’s special envoy to Sudan does share the sentiment of a coalition of U.S.-based Darfur peace groups that Sudan demands immediate action–action that, from his point of view, is already being taken–a State Department spokesman for Maj. Gen. Scott Gration says.
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