Donors pledge €160m to Darfur operation

International donors pledged an additional €160m to fund the African Union peacekeeping operation in Darfur today during a conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to raise money to stop the ongoing violence in western Sudan.

Canada made the largest new pledge, promising €106m. The US State Department’s senior representative on Sudan, Charles Snyder, said the US was adding €39m to the €76m already pledged to help end what he called “acts of genocide”.