(Akiit.com) EU foreign ministers on Monday gave the green light for a 40-million euro aid package to the African Union peacekeeping force in the troubled Sudanese province of Darfur, EU officials said.

For the money to be released, the decision must still be approved at a meeting between EU and foreign ministers from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations in Brussels on May 25.

This is because the 40 million euros would in effect be pulled out of unused European development funds which are co-managed by the EU and the ACP.

The European Union has already handed out 400 million euros worth of funding to the African mission in Somalia (AMIS), including 240 million euros from a special African peace fund which is now empty.
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