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AFRICANEWSWIRE.NET (June, 07 2012)
Better in blue than in Bengaluru?
HIS white hair neatly parted, Major-General Muhammad Khalid of the Pakistani armed forces looks out over a sandy beach from his air-conditioned office in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. His command of local UN forces is but one of a string of peacekeeping posts he has held in the past two decades, none as comfortable as this. His troops are better equipped and organised than any he has seen, while conflict has become rare. His main worry is bureaucracy. “I cannot spend a dollar without filling out forms,” he says. “A lot has changed.”UN peacekeepers in Africa have long acted to calm things down after bloody dust-ups in the bush. It is a job they still do. In the Abyei region of Sudan, blue helmets are keeping combatants at arm’s length, at times using their own vehicles as barriers. But elsewhere their role has expanded vastly. Protecting civilians has become a big part of many missions, putting additional strain on peacekeepers as they find themselves in the role of policeman. Argentine officers in Côte d’Ivoire chase local bandits in coffee plantations....
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