[sudan] little chance of un force with omar al-beshir there

There are 390 South African National Defence Force members and about 100 South African Police Service members serving with the 7200-strong AU mission in Sudan. South Africa wants the force to convert to a UN peacekeeping unit but what are they talking about? Such misery, such human carnage-in-waiting, and the problem is one obstructive man, as it often is in these situations – in this case President Omar al-Beshir. The man is simply indifferent to the people he supposedly rules, so what SA wants is largely irrelevant, one would think.