President Bush mentions Darfur a couple of times a year and nothing happens. Gordon Brown is Prime Minister of the UK for a month and the UN vote backs Brown's call for action to end Darfur conflict.
"The UN vote will dispatch a hybrid force of 19,555 UN and African Union (AU) soldiers and more than 6,000 police from around the world. They are due to take over from a largely ineffectual 7,000-strong AU force in the western Sudan by the end of the year, and will have a much more muscular mandate. They are being deployed under chapter 7 of the UN charter which will give them the right to use force to protect civilians and assist the delivery of relief supplies."
"The resolution had been stripped of any threat of sanctions against the Sudanese government if it blocked the force's deployment, though Mr Brown said his government would "redouble" efforts to impose an embargo if that happened."
It could just be that Brown came to power as political will was progressing, but I don't think so. Brown's off to a good start.
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