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| Central Africa on the brink of war - UN |
| 2006-12-22 |
| The United Nations' top refugee official said on Thursday an international peacekeeping force in Darfur was essential to prevent the whole of central Africa descending into conflict. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, in Chad on a two-day visit, said the international community faced a titanic task in moving about 230 000 Darfur refugees away from the country's violent border area with Sudan. The east of Chad adjoins Sudan's Darfur region, where a political and ethnic conflict has raged since 2003, killing tens of thousands of people and spilling into neighbouring states. "If the security situation deteriorates, we will have a very serious problem," the former Portuguese prime minister told a news conference. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Goodness me! Them boys got lips like .10¢ pickles! |
| Posted by: Circles it is! 2006-12-22 16:07 |
| #9 The problem for the West involving Africa now is that the recent election in the US put the race hucksters and syncophants in charge of the House and Senate. This will tie the hands of Bush in any dealings with Africa, just as Tony Blair has his hands tied by the Labour Party's anti-Western faction. Unless and until the West decides that Africa needs to have a strong Western-led housecleaning, that continent will continue its downward spiral. The only places in sub-Saharan Africa that have anything resembling stability and economic growth are those that have had direct Western intervention recently. The exception to this had been South Africa, but with the recent rise of the Comrades in the ANC, SA is now doomed to do a Zimbabwe in the near future. Funny that an unreconstructed Communist like Mandela was smart enough to put that aside to grow SA while he was President, but his younger replacements are willing to throw it all away. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2006-12-22 19:24 |
| #8 Who cares, let em play. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-12-22 16:01 |
| #7 You could just take that "Central" outta there. Makes things easier for everybody... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-12-22 11:51 |
| #6 Central Africa on the brink of war - UN UN on brink of irrelevance - Central Africa. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-12-22 11:32 |
| #5 Brink of war, eh? That would explain all the fighting. Yet another finalist for the Rantburg "Understated Snark of the Week" award ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-12-22 08:28 |
| #4 Lol -- Coffee Alert! |
| Posted by: .com 2006-12-22 02:00 |
| #3 Brink of war, eh? That would explain all the fighting. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-12-22 01:56 |
| #2 "Have a very serious problem" > yeah, like Radical Spetzlamists going after all of Africa's oil fields - you know, why ONCE AGAIN its America, and ONLY America, thats waging "War for Oil". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-12-22 01:04 |
| #1 Maybe the UN could surrender. Hey, they think that's the solution for civil war in Iraq. Maybe for once the UN could abide by their own principles. |
| Posted by: badanov 2006-12-22 00:46 |