 CAIRO - The Arab League said on Sunday it had donated $1 million to support African Union (AU) forces in war-ravaged Somalia, an Arab League member state. ‘This sum is the first phase,’ Samir Hosni, who deals with African affairs at the league, said. ‘This amount is from the Arab League and not the Arab countries.’
| A million. That's what, three days of graft and operations? |
| That's the catering bill. |
Hosni said the Cairo-based organisation had already sent $15 million to support the struggling African Union forces in Darfur, and $1 million to AU peacekeeping forces to monitor elections in the Comoros Islands. |