Darfur is home to the worlds largest humanitarian operation. but the World Food Program reports that 45 of its trucks have been hijacked already this year. WFP now transports about half as much food into Darfur as it normally would. Tensions also run high between neighboring Chad and Sudan. and eastern Chad is receiving a new influx of refugees from Darfur at a time when Chad itself is facing instability and displacement. The new commander of the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force said it would not be fully deployed until the end of this year. possibly not until the beginning of 2009. The peacekeeping mission. which is supposed to deploy 26.000 peacekeepers. currently has only about 9.000 soldiers on the ground.
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