Sudan Says to Cease Darfur Fighting Immediately
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - Sudan Sunday said it would  immediately and unconditionally cease hostilities in the remote  Darfur region, and asked the United Nations and African Union  to request that rebel forces do the same.
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The Sudanese government has agreed to stop a military offensive in Darfur province in a move that could prompt the two main rebel groups to end their boycott of African Union-sponsored peace talks, the chief AU mediator said.
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The African Union said Saturday that Sudan had started withdrawing troops in the Darfur region ahead of an evening deadline to end fighting there, but the government
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair  warned Sudan on Wednesday the international community would not  rest until violence was ended in Darfur and a comprehensive  peace deal was struck across the whole country.
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UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned yesterday that a recent surge of fighting in Sudan's Darfur region could hurt next month's political negotiations on ending the four-year conflict.
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LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday the Sudanese government must end the violence in its western region of Darfur or face possible action by the United Nations.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The authorities pledged to halt military operations in Darfur, a United Nations spokeswoman said Sunday, but African Union officials said the government had kept up attacks on rebels in the region.
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Sudan hopes to reach a peace agreement to end fighting in its troubled Darfur region by the end of the year, Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said on Monday.
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The Sudanese government will stop its military operations in the Darfur conflict zone in west Sudan if rebels in the area stop violating a ceasefire deal, a top official in Sudan&#39;s ruling party said on Thursday.
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The African Union said Sudan began  withdrawing troops in Darfur before a Saturday deadline to end  fighting in the western region, but Khartoum said the pull-back  was conditional on rebels halting attacks.
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Thursday called for an early conclusion of Sudan&#39;s north-south peace talks and an speedy end of the northern African country&#39;s Darfur crisis.
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The United States pressed Sudan's  government on Monday to stop its latest military action in the  western Darfur region and remove any obstacles preventing full  deployment of U.N.-African Union peacekeepers.
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KHARTOUM -- Sudan yesterday asked African Union forces monitoring a shaky truce in its violent Darfur region to leave the country by Sept. 30, as Khartoum launched a new offensive threatening a return to full-blown war.
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The Khartoum government on Wednesday approved to halt its military operations in Darfur to the west of Sudan. This was in a step that will push both the two main rebel movements in the region to give up their
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Sudan hopes to reach a peace agreement  to end fighting in its troubled Darfur region by the end of the  year, Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said on Monday.
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NYALA, Sudan -- With violence increasing and political pressure mounting to end conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, the government agreed yesterday to halt military flights over the region and signed a separate agreement to allow free access to aid for the nearly 2 million people displaced by the violence.
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Sudan's government has ordered troops in three areas of Darfur to observe an immediate cease-fire, state media reported Monday, and an international observer said the government will ask rebels to do the same.