Nigerian Protection Force Leaves for Darfur
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An elite contingent of 50 Nigerian  soldiers left Nigeria on Thursday for Darfur, the first stage  in the deployment of 3,000 extra African Union (AU) troops to  monitor a shaky cease-fire in the western Sudanese region.
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EL-FASHER, Sudan  - An elite contingent of 50  Nigerian soldiers arrived in Darfur on Thursday aboard a U.S.  military plane, the first of 3,000 extra African Union troops  deployed to monitor a shaky cease-fire in Sudan's western  region.
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A new joint African Union-United Nations force took over peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday from an AU mission which has struggled to stem nearly five years of brutal conflict in the western Sudanese region.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - In a goodwill gesture on the eve of peace talks in Nigeria, Sudan said Sunday it will cut the number of paramilitary forces operating in Darfur by 30 per cent in a bid to ease tensions in the troubled region, where an 18-month conflict has claimed the lives of an estimated 30,000 people.
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The government of Sudan has ordered the country directors of two British-based aid agencies that provide relief to displaced people in the Darfur region to leave
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EL-FASHER, Sudan -- A contingent of 50 Nigerian soldiers arrived in Darfur yesterday aboard a US military plane, the first of 3,000 additional African Union troops deployed to monitor an unsteady cease-fire in Sudan's western region.
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A new joint African Union-United Nations force took over peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday from an AU mission which failed to stem nearly five years of conflict in western Sudan.
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SUDAN has agreed to a joint withdrawal of government and rebel forces in Darfur and will accept a large rise in international ceasefire monitors, Tony Blair said last night as he left Khartoum for the second session of his Commission for Africa in Ethiopia
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Nigerian troops have begun arriving in Sudan to form part of an African Union (AU) force that will protect monitors observing a ceasefire between rebels and the Sudanese government.
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Nigeria&#39;s President Olusegun Obasanjo warned Sudan to move more quickly to disarm the feared Janjaweed militia and called for African Union peacekeepers to be sent to Darfur.
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The Sudanese government and rebels in the country&#39;s Darfur region have signed security and humanitarian agreements in Nigeria after two weeks of talks, the press officer for Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has said.
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A new joint African Union-United Nations force was poised to take over peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday from an AU mission which has struggled to stem nearly five years of violence in the western Sudanese region.
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The director in Sudan of international aid agency Care says he has been ordered to leave the country.
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The African Union said it would leave the Darfur region by the end of the month if Sudan did not allow U.N. peacekeepers to take over its mission.
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More than 30 aid workers have been airlifted to safety from a town in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region after fighting broke out and their base was bombed, a British charity says.
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A beefed-up joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur is set to take over from the current under-manned AU force on Monday in a bid to end years of bloodshed.
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The United Nations Security Council authorized on Tuesday a European Union force and U.N. police to help protect civilians in Chad and the Central African Republic caught in the spillover from the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.