Saving Sudan: A Return to Humanitarian Multilateralism

UN Security Council Resolution 1769, passed July 31st, authorises the UN to send 20,000 peacekeeping troops to the Darfur region of Sudan to assist the African Union peacekeepers there. It is great to see the cooperation between Brown and Sarkozy to ensure this deployment, and some action finally being taken on Sudan. Working through the UN gives this mission a legitimacy that a unilateral approach lacks. Let's hope this will stabilise Darfur, and that UN peacekeepers can continue to be deployed further out in Sudan as needed.