Crisis in Darfur has parallels with Rwanda, president says

LONDON: The African Union's inability to deal with the crisis in Darfur echoes the West's earlier failure to prevent the genocide in Rwanda, the small country's president said Thursday during a visit to Britain.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame said he could not understand why the humanitarian disaster in the war-torn region was continuing, even though the United Nations, the African Union and Sudan itself had agreed it was serious.

"There has been a lot of dilly-dallying, a lot of sashaying, a lot of debate, similar to what happened in Rwanda," he said. "Why the Sudan, the AU and the U.N. have not decided how the intervention should be carried out raises more questions than I can answer." Read more >>>