Al Jazeera's Mohammed Vall reports from Southern Sudan on peacekeepers that are operating without basic supplies.
Six months after the deployment of a joint peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region, soldiers are struggling to protect civilians as they face a crippling lack of basic supplies.
Sudan says the joint UN-African Union force [UNAMID] must contain mainly African soldiers.
As a result, that has caused delays in finding enough troops.
Yesterday John Prendergast, co-Chair of the ENOUGH project, briefed the Security Council during a special session on peace and security in Sudan. With its latest invasion-by-proxy in Chad, the Sudanese government is taking its defiance of the United Nations Security Council to a new level. As we speak, Khartoum is sponsoring and supporting an open and transparent effort to overthrow a neighboring government. A month ago, the regime burned the strategic town of Abyei to the ground, leaving the North-South Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) at extreme risk. This comes against the backdrop of a government offensive in Darfur and ongoing support to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), whose actions threaten the children of four countries.
To read John Prendergast’s discussion of his briefing, visit his guest blog on The Huffington Post here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-prendergast/sudan-and-the-security-co_b_107635.html