Jed,

A curious report which I quickly skimmed through.

The report very briefly touches upon how AU peace operations are funded, just about admitting the AU does not finance them - the EU & USA do. The two suggestions made, each a US$ levy on air tickets and hotels were laughable.

Why does the report state only the EU & USA can provide strategic airlift? For a price normally both the Ukraine and Russia, either national air forces or private contractors, have provided this.

Unless there is an accompanying document - where is a table showing who are the contributors of personnel, who pays, who has suffered casaulaties etc.

ANISOM is cited rightly, but does anyone think the troop contributors would be there if Africa picked up the bill?

I am not familiar with African surnames, but the conference participants did appear to be rather light on Africans.