'AU needs to enforce Darfur peace deal'

Johannesburg -
A South African peacemaker who participated in the negotiations for last week's peace deal in Darfur has warned that the agreement is very fragile and could collapse unless the African Union finds the "political stomach" to enforce it robustly.

Most fighting forces did not sign the accord and those which did had repeatedly broken ceasefires before and the African Union lacked the strength to enforce it, warned Laurie Nathan, a research fellow at the University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics. Read more >>>