African peacekeeping - The doves of war (The Economist)

THE United Nations will juggle nine separate peacekeeping operations across Africa in 2008, including the continent's two largest countries by area, Sudan and Congo. In addition, the African Union (AU) will partner the UN in a new hybrid peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region. It may also persevere with its own peacekeeping effort in Somalia and in smaller operations elsewhere, such as the Comoros. This sounds impressive. But the UN and the AU are both, in fact, struggling. Read More