The Head of the African Union has said that all UN troops in Darfur would be from Africa. I would not like British troops in Darfur at all as I mentioned before but I did say that China should deploy troops as it already has quite a lot of commercial interests in Sudan.
But as an aside, I am not very happy with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown taking a far from healthy interest in Darfur. He is still banging on about it as the BBC reported today in here.
So this report from the People's Daily is quite interesting. And the typo on the word "farms" is perhaps quite revealing. Read and reflect
A Chinese peacekeeping unit will be deployed in Sudan's Darfur region in early October, an official with Ministry of National Defence said on Saturday.
The unit consists of 315 people. They are divided into three engineer platoons, one well sinking platoon and one field hospital, Dai Shao'an, vice director of the peacekeeping affairs office with the ministry, told Xinhua.
On invitation of the UN Security Council, the unit was founded on 13 June in the Jinan Military Command of the People's Liberation Army and has been trained for multi-functional engineering troop.
The unit will fly to join a UN hybrid international peacekeeping force for Darfur.
Their main responsibility is to build roads and bridges and dig wells to prepare for the deployment of the hybrid international forces for Darfur.
The unit has been equipped with 145 vehicles including bulldozers, grabs and other constructing facilities as well as 315 small arms, said the vice director.
The engineers have been provided with necessary training and education of the UN constitutions, international laws and English language to fulfil the peacekeeping mission in Darfur.
Source: Xinhua
All this to be taken with a grain of piquant salt!!
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