"Peacekeeping missions in Africa are hampered by difficulties in generating forces and a shortage of funding, a senior United Nations official said on Friday ... "Very closely linked to force generation is the question of funding and logistics. You can generate troops but if you can't equip them, they are not going to be able to do their job properly. If you look at the range of African troop contributors and what major ones are contributing, they are very stretched," [Nick Seymour] said." (Quoted from article)