Al-Bashir is at it again.

Last weekend, Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir again tried to thwart the will of the international community and said that he will not accept non-African peacekeeping troops in Darfur.

After one failed attempt to deploy peacekeepers and years of negotiations with the Sudanese government, the U.N. Security Council finally approved a peacekeeping force for Darfur in July. The Security Council, submitting to Sudanese demands, authorized a force of a "predominantly African character" with troops that are "as far as possible … sourced from African countries."

But Al-Bashir is stonewalling again. He blocked the first attempt to deploy peacekeepers in Darfur and forced the world to accept a force with fewer resources and a smaller chance of success. Now he's threatening to block another attempt and further weaken the peacekeeping force.

"He said he accepted the force unconditionally when the U.N. Security Council were in Khartoum last June," said Larry Rossin, former U.N. Ambassador and board member of the Save Darfur Coalition. "And here he is lying again."

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