%0 Journal Article %T The Darfur Crisis in Sudan: Challenge to International Peacekeeping Missions %A Soetan Stephen Olayiwola %J Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences %D 2012 %I %X The Darfur Crisis in Sudan has continue to pose a great challenge to International Peacekeeping mission and humanitarian intervention in politics of other states since 1983 when the most recent Sudanese civil war broke out, the Organisation of African Unity (now African Union) has made series of attempts to ensure peace and put an end to reckless killings and wanton destruction of properties in the country. She had gone to the extent of stationing a peacekeeping force in the Sudan to maintain peace of recent, the U.N. had offered military assistance to the A.U. peacekeeping mission in the Sudan.The role of International Organisation at maintaining peace in the Sudan with its attendant difficulties form the tenets of discussion in this study. %U http://www.medwellonline.net/abstract/?doi=pjssci.2007.396.399