Sudan update

The African Union committed troops to war-torn Darfur today. A whopping 300 troops. They claimed that the troops would intervene if they witnessed violence by Arab militia against Africans. Considering there will be 300 of them in a region the size of France, I doubt there'll be any witnessing.

Also, the AU declined to call the systematic raping, killing and removal of Africans in Darfur as genocide, joining the rest of the world community in refusing to call this what it is.

In the end, we cannot expect the African Union to fight this battle; the pressure has to come from the US and the UN.