"Military experts have endorsed draft rules on how future African Union (AU) peacekeeping operations would be carried out after a meeting on Friday, Salim Ahmed Salim, a member of AU’s Panel of the Wise, said. ‘It is a matter of common knowledge that during the current military conflicts, civilians are the most affected. We have come up with guidelines that have been discussed and the understanding is that these would be taken to the various African Union policy-making organs’, Salim said Friday." (Quoted from article)