AU to deploy 5,000 troops in Darfur
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The African Union is to decide early October whether it will send 3,000- to 5,000 troops to the troubled region Darfur to help stop the violence there, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said.
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The African Union is ready to send more peacekeeping troops to quell the deadly violence in Sudan's Darfur region but is prevented from doing so because it lacks the cash, according to officials at the AU headquarters.
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African monitors should deploy in  camps for the almost 1.5 million displaced by the conflict in  Darfur and should also monitor police to help build trust with  the local community, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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The United Nations and the African Union were close to a deal on Wednesday on fielding 23,000 peacekeepers in Sudan's violent Darfur region, but full deployment is not expected until next year at the earliest.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Sept. 25 -- The African Union will add 4,000 troops to its Darfur peacekeeping mission, bolstering the 7,000 poorly funded and under-equipped A.U. forces currently monitoring a battered cease-fire.
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The African Union, the United Nations and the Sudanese government opened talks here Monday on the deployment of a hybrid AU-UN force of up to 20,000 peacekeepers to Sudan&#39;s war-torn region of Darfur.
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Astronomical quantities of arms and  ammunition have poured into Darfur in the last two weeks and  the government appears to be preparing for a major military  offensive, the African Union (AU) said on Friday.
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Sudan has accepted a United  Nations-African Union peacekeeping force of up to 23,000 troops  and police for Darfur but some U.N. diplomats fear conditions  may be attached.
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The United Nations and the  African Union were close to a deal on Wednesday on fielding  23,000 peacekeepers in Sudan&#39;s violent Darfur region, but full  deployment is not expected until next year at the earliest.
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ABUJA, Aug 29  -- The Sudanese government said here Sunday that it must approve any increase in the number of African Union troops to crisis-ridden Darfur above the 300 soldiers agreed last month with the AU.
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The African Union, the United Nations and the Sudanese government opened talks here Monday on the deployment of a hybrid AU-UN force of 23,000 peacekeepers to Sudan&#39;s war-torn region of Darfur.
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The United Nations handed over to Sudan on Friday detailed plans for a Darfur peacekeeping force of more than 23,000 troops and police to protect civilians and use force to deter violence.
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The Security Council on Friday weighed a report on a planned UN-African Union (AU) joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur, including a call on Khartoum to allow a mobile force of up to 23,000 troops and police in the war-torn region.
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EL FASHER, Sudan, Oct 30  -- Sixty-five Rwandan troops arrived in the the Darfur town of El Fasher as part of a growing African Union (AU) military mission charged with monitoring a shaky ceasefire in the troubled region of western Sudan, an AFP
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A joint United Nations-African  Union (AU) force took charge of peacekeeping in Darfur on  Monday, seeking to end almost five years of fighting in the  western Sudanese region.
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Ethiopia and Egypt will each send 850 troops early in the new year to serve with a joint United Nations-African Union force in Sudan's Darfur region, an AU official told Reuters on Monday.
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The African Union will add 4,000   troops to its extended Darfur peacekeeping mission, bringing   the number of police and soldiers in western Sudan to 11,000, a   spokesman for the AU said on Monday.