Progress in Darfur?

So tonight, Thursday night, Kofi Annan announced that Khartoum has accepted a plan to enforce peace in Darfur "in principle": Khartoum has 'agreed' to what is called a 'hybrid' force i.e. more thousands of African Union troops with the assistance of some few thousands of U.N.-provided troops--so long as the entire corps is under African Union command (although the AFP dispatch says that this last is "as yet unclear": I am writing more on the basis of the Vatican Radio report I've just heard than on the AFP story).  We shall see. 

When I hear Mr Annan being quoted to the effect that all the parties involved share "the right spirit, the right hope", well, the hundreds of thousands of dead Darfuris don't incline me to lend much credence to his diplomacy: but we shall see.  Spes contra spem.