How about NOT being paid.Officials from the U.N., AU and Sudan met in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, to jump-start a three-stage plan for a joint force to back up 7,000 overwhelmed and underpaid African Union troops already in Darfur.
Well hopefully the UN will not screw up the payment of the soldiers as the AU did almost often as noted in this SA blg on his year tour of duty in al-fashier under a AU hat.
I recall numerous problems with NIBATTS and ECOMOG forces in other peacekeeping duties under the blue hat, not getting paid on time and soldiers/units going as far as refusing to get onto helo transports until they were paid. Pretty bad when your trying to insert PKs into area because the place is about to get real bad in a hurry and all they need to do is pay them.
I would think they had it right by now since the 90s, but after reading some of the blogs, it's obvious some things never change.
I hope the UN don't screw this one up.
If you want the truth, anything more than Boots on the Ground is BS.
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On another note: 32 AMIS Camps where built by PAE. Here is a report to GAO on Darfur. Good resource for background information. Another interesting note is that of the 16 authorized US Military Observers, only 11 were filled at the time of report.? Probably figure out why.
GAO Report on Darfur Nov 2006
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d079.pdf
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