We Really Need Some Political Will - Inter Press Service

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 6 (IPS) - The civil war in Darfur, a six-year conflict that has killed up to 300,000 Sudanese civilians thus far, is now virtually out of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s hands.

"I don’t know what more he can do," Rania Rajjij, of Amnesty International told IPS.

Ban assured reporters here that that the Darfur crisis has remained one of his top priorities from the day he took office in January 2007. But, "we really need some political will," he said, both on the part of the warring factions and also among the 192 member states, who have even failed to provide the U.N. with the 24 helicopters urgently needed for the peacekeeping force in Darfur.

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