Irish troops may feature in UN Darfur force

Irish troops could be sent to Darfur after the United Nations finally secured a resolution to deploy a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force to the region.

The resolution was passed last week, a year after it was first mooted. The unwillingness of China to back the Security Council on a motion for a peacekeeping force for Darfur was long cited as the reason the UN had not moved to ease the plight of the indigenous ...