时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(七月)


英语课
By Arjun Kohli
Nairobi
12 July 2007

European Union officials say they are deeply concerned about the inability of the African Union to pay its peacekeeping troops in Darfur, western Sudan.  An EU official tells VOA there are fears that the African Union may not be equipped to meet the challenges of a larger hybrid 1 peacekeeping force, expected to be deployed 3 in Darfur later in the year.  Arjun Kohli has more from our East Africa bureau in Nairobi.






A picture taken by the WFP in February 2007 shows displaced Sudanese people at the WFP food aid distribution center of the Otash IDP camp in Nyala, Sudan


A picture taken by the WFP in February 2007 shows displaced Sudanese people at the WFP food aid distribution center of the Otash IDP camp in Nyala, Sudan



European parliament members in Strasbourg are discussing the crisis in Darfur, after a recent fact-finding mission to Sudan's war-torn western region revealed widespread problems in the AU peacekeeping mission, known by its acronym 4 AMIS.


The lawmakers are especially focused on reports that the 7,000 AU soldiers have not received their salaries in more than four months, despite the monthly multi-million dollar European contribution to the peacekeeping mission.


A spokesman for the EU development and aid commission, Amadeu Altafaj, says that the European Union does not believe corruption 5 is the reason for the delay.  He says a lack of expertise 6 in financial and administrative 7 management, combined with inadequate 8 resources, may be the problem. 


"We have been carrying out audits 9 in Addis, in Khartoum," Altafaj said. "We do not have evidence of any fraud, any misuse 10 of the money.  But on the other hand we have seen that there are difficulties, there are delays.  There is a lack of capacity.  There is a lack of expertise in the African Union, but AMIS is doing an important job on the ground.  They are the only ones taking this responsibility on the ground, so what they need is full support of the international community in general."


Fighting in Darfur continues even though the largest rebel group, but not others, signed a peace agreement with the government in Khartoum last year.


More than 200,000 people have been killed by the violence since 2003 and an estimated 2.5 million people are homeless.  An understaffed AU force has been unable to stop the fighting.


In June, the Sudanese government agreed to allow the United Nations to deploy 2 a joint 11 force with the African Union.  


EU spokesman Altafaj says that for two months the European Union has used reserve funds to keep the AU operation afloat, because financial pledges from the international community have not been honored. 


"There are problems.  There are delays.  But the main difficulty, in fact, is the chronic 12 uncertainty 13 of the financing of the operations of the African Union peace force," Altafaj said. "It is difficult to figure out how we can have a bigger force in place in the future if we are not even able to finance the 7,000 African forces on the ground.  What the African Union needs is, of course, capacities, supports, transparency etc.  But what they need the most is really financial backing from the whole international community."


People in Darfur are victims of all kinds of violence, including rape 14 and murder.  In late June, France, the United States, China, and 15 other nations agreed at a Paris conference to redouble efforts to end the bloodshed. 




n.(动,植)杂种,混合物
  • That is a hybrid perpetual rose.那是一株杂交的四季开花的蔷薇。
  • The hybrid was tall,handsome,and intelligent.那混血儿高大、英俊、又聪明。
v.(军)散开成战斗队形,布置,展开
  • The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
  • The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。
(尤指军事行动)使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 ); 施展; 部署; 有效地利用
  • Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
  • The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。
n.首字母简略词,简称
  • That's a mouthful of an acronym for a very simple technology.对于一项非常简单的技术来说,这是一个很绕口的缩写词。
  • TSDF is an acronym for Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities.TSDF是处理,储存和处置设施的一个缩写。
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
n.专门知识(或技能等),专长
  • We were amazed at his expertise on the ski slopes.他斜坡滑雪的技能使我们赞叹不已。
  • You really have the technical expertise in a new breakthrough.让你真正在专业技术上有一个全新的突破。
adj.行政的,管理的
  • The administrative burden must be lifted from local government.必须解除地方政府的行政负担。
  • He regarded all these administrative details as beneath his notice.他认为行政管理上的这些琐事都不值一顾。
adj.(for,to)不充足的,不适当的
  • The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不应求。
  • She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她还无力满足对她提出的各项要求。
n.审计,查账( audit的名词复数 )v.审计,查账( audit的第三人称单数 )
  • Requires that use of all bond funds is subject to independent audits. 需要使用的所有债券基金是受独立审计。 来自互联网
  • Support the locations during customer-visits, audits and quality-improvement programs. 支持客户参观,稽核和提高品质等项目。 来自互联网
n.误用,滥用;vt.误用,滥用
  • It disturbs me profoundly that you so misuse your talents.你如此滥用自己的才能,使我深感不安。
  • He was sacked for computer misuse.他因滥用计算机而被解雇了。
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
adj.(疾病)长期未愈的,慢性的;极坏的
  • Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
  • Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。
n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物
  • Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
  • After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后,压力开始产生影响了。
n.抢夺,掠夺,强奸;vt.掠夺,抢夺,强奸
  • The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
  • He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
学英语单词
above-quota purchase
alicyclic acid
amphoriscid
Araqua
artemia salinas
autesiodorum (auxerre)
authigenesis
base of neck
bottom ramming machine
burhinidaes
coarse braking
compressed air installation
context-independent
cuellar
cyberbanks
Cypridea
decision logic translator
deion extinction of arc
depreciation rate of tooling
desose
distance liner
Donzenac
dual detector
duck mold packing
eccentric type pickup
equilibrate
Eschscholtzia californica
event-by-event
exponential subroutine
export labo(u)r power
extenders
fog-navigation
geared brake motor
gebhart
genus lutras
health-consciousness
hercostomus lunlatus
heterogenous graft
Hindostan
holding braking effort
horsecrap
Hutchinson's patch
inhearing
insert film
insurance share
Kidd blood group system
Kodoris K'edi
kuvasz
lakon kabach boran (cambodia)
latent load
leaned
left divisor
liberalizers
licea kleistobolus
lot by lot
Malolo
man-millinery
mannoheptitol
master file table
mazelyn
mine accident
molybdenic acid
nanpa
nature strips
nnfa
objectives of financial statement
Ohiwa Harb.
operator trunk
Origanum dictamnus
paleoepibiotic endemism
peripheral arteriosclerosis
perosplanchnia
planchering
point softening
Pomadasyidae
poor-spirited
reference wedge
self feeding carburetor
shorthandedly
single ported slide valve
Skebobruk
soft margarine
soil metabolism
sound intermediate frequency
spillage oil
Spinacia oleracea Mill.
steel-bar header
stern ornament
stratifiable
surface recombination admittance
Surinsk
telegraaf
threepeater
tisdell
Tombila, Gunung
Trichosanthes quinquangulata
troched
v-shaped antenna
vestibular nuclei
whose'n
wolfhounds
work space layout