How poorly supported is the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur? According to a report by the Darfur Consortium, this poorly:

Some of the soldiers from the former African force were so badly supplied that they were reduced to putting blue plastic bags over their helmets to indicate that they now worked for the UN, the report says.

Only about a third of the promised troops have been deployed. No wonder Bashir is sitting pretty.