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10/16/2004:

"Africa needs Europe's help with peacekeeping"

Efforts by industrialized countries to train troops from Africa in peacekeeping are welcome but cannot substitute for those nations deploying their own forces to the continent, the senior United Nations peacekeeping official said today.

Writing in the International Herald Tribune, Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guéhenno pointed out that in the last decade more than 6 million Africans have died directly or indirectly as a result of conflict. "What is happening now in Darfur is, in some ways, just the latest episode of a story of poverty and conflict that stretches back across much of the continent for almost half a century."

Full Article : keralanext.com

What Africa needs is funds via Reparations to do its own peacekeeping.