Sudan steps up pressure on Darfur
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Sudan says AU peacekeepers must leave Darfur by 30 September, as its steps up its offensive against rebels.
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The Sudanese government is trying to meet U.N. demands to end the conflict in Darfur that has killed up to 50,000 people but needs to do more, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday.
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Sudan bowed to mounting pressure over the crisis in Darfur and agreed to allow African Union forces to monitor the activities of its police in camps for displaced persons in the region.
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The African Union has approved plans for a big increase in its military intervention force in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur.
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The United States and others will consider imposing a range of punitive measures against Sudan for its refusal to accept an international force into its Darfur region, the State Department said on Tuesday.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 5 -- Sudan stepped up opposition to a U.N. peacekeeping mission for Darfur, warning that it would consider any country's pledge to supply police or troops to a U.N. force "a hostile act" and a "prelude to an invasion" of the Islamic country.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and members of the U.N. Security Council took turns Monday demanding swift intervention to ease the mounting humanitarian crisis in Darfur, but the Sudanese government again resisted a U.N. peacekeeping force.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The government yesterday scorned Western threats to use sanctions and no-fly zones to pressure Sudan into accepting UN peacekeepers in Darfur, saying harsh measures would not end the violence there.
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The African Union plans to send more   troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended peacekeeping   mission in war-ravaged Darfur, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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The United States and others will consider imposing a range of punitive measures against Sudan for its refusal to accept an international force into Darfur region, the State Department said on Tuesday.
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A senior Sudanese government official says international pressure to bring peace to the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan may scuttle negotiations to end the violence.
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The Sudanese government bowed to international pressure yesterday and agreed to allow more foreign troops in the stricken Darfur region.
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UNITED NATIONS/KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The United  States piled pressure on Sudan Wednesday to accept a more  powerful monitoring force in Darfur with a new U.N. draft  resolution threatening sanctions on its oil industry.
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EL FASHER, Sudan  - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the Darfur region of western Sudan on Wednesday, promising to step up pressure for a political solution to the festering conflict.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flies to Sudan tomorrow to try and end the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. He is going to press on the government the need to rein in and bring to justice Arab militias
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A UN-led force for Darfur would need up to 18,600 troops and intense international pressure has to be put on Sudan to accept the intervention, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew to Sudan on Monday to keep up international pressure on Khartoum to comply with UN demands to end the conflict in Darfur that has already killed up to 50,000 people.