UNAMSIL, UNMIL, UNOCI Meet With UNOWA and DPKO

Here, in its entirety, is a tremendously meaningful update from the UN on peacekeeping efforts in Africa:

Military chiefs of UN peacekeeping missions in West Africa meet in Senegal

22 February 2005 – The military chiefs of the three United Nations peacekeeping missions in West Africa met today in Dakar, Senegal, to share information and assessments of risk.

Gen. Sajjad Akram of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL), Gen. Joseph Olorunghbon of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), and Gen. Abdoulaye Fall of the UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) started their two-day meeting with military advisers from the UN Office in West Africa (UNOWA) and Gen. El-Hadji Mouhamadou Kandji from the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) to revise scenarios and update their estimates of sub-regional threats and challenges.

The Security Council authorized the missions to meet for consultations on cross-border and regional conflict prevention and peacekeeping issues.

What???? I'm sure the people of West Africa -- indeed, the world -- will rest easier knowing scenarios have been revised and threats and challenges estimated. That task completed, the UNAMSIL, UNMIL and UNOCI generals can return to base and see if they can catch up with UNMIDRC (Congo) by revising the virginity assessment of some local pre-teen girls.