DARFUR'S PEACEKEEPERS NOT PAID!

Rwandans make up 2,000 of the 7,000-strong Darfur force. Rwanda's army spokesman says there have been delays in paying peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region because the African Union is short of cash.
Some of the Rwandan troops who make up over 2,000 of the 7,000-strong AU force in Darfur have complained they have not received their $25 daily allowance.
Maj Jules Rutaremara told the BBC the AU mission is reliant on international funding which has not been forthcoming.
The UN Security Council is due to vote on replacing AU troops with a UN force.
The US and UK have proposed the revised resolution to deploy UN peacekeepers in place of the struggling AU mission.
US Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer has said that AU troops were stretched to "breaking point" and could not keep the peace in an area the size of France.
Confident
"The AU has financial problems emanating from the fact that it is heavily dependent on partners outside Africa - mainly the European Union, the US and Canada, whose contributions have not been forthcoming," Maj Rutaremara told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.

More than one million people have been displaced in the conflict.
But he said that he was confident the entitlements due to the Rwandan soldiers would be settled.
"The AU has registered delays in payments of allowances and salaries, sometimes going up to two months, but that does not mean that they will not be paid," he said.
The decision about whether to withdraw the AU mission was a political decision, not a military one, he said, although the Rwandan army was concerned about logistical problems in Darfur.
Two Rwandan soldiers in Darfur died in an ambush earlier this month.
The UN wants about 17,500 UN troops to police the region in place of a AU mission.
Khartoum has been resisting the plan, but the new resolution specifies that any UN deployment would have to be approved by the Sudanese government.

BBC NEWS REPORT.