African Union hasn&#39;t yet approved large Darfur force
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Despite pressure for Sudan to  accept a peacekeeping force of 23,000 troops and police, a key  African Union committee has not approved plans sent by the  United Nations, diplomats said on Thursday.
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Sudan has yet to decide whether to  allow U.N. peacekeeping troops into Darfur, but will let a  technical team visit the region to investigate a United Nations  role, presidential advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail said on Friday.
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The African Union said on   Wednesday it would extend its underfinanced force in Sudan's   Darfur region until the end of this year after receiving   promises of support from the United Nations and Arab states.
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Rwanda's army says there are delays in paying Darfur peace troops as the African Union lacks cash.
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UNITED NATIONS : An expanded African force must be urgently deployed in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a report discussed by the UN Security Council.
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UN mission officials in Sudan said Friday they hope an expanded African force will be on the ground in Darfur by the end of October, after Sudan&#39;s foreign minister agreed to allow in 3,500 outside troops.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday a much larger international force was needed in Sudan's Darfur region "as soon as possible" since the government has failed to fully protect African villagers from Arab militias.
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The African Union needs increased United Nations support if it is to continue its peacekeeping operation in Darfur, European Commission aid chief Louis Michel said on Monday.
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A UN Security Council team and African Union officials on Saturday discussed the speedy deployment of a hybrid force in Darfur following Khartoum&#39;s long-awaited nod for the peacekeepers.
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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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There appears to be no end in sight to the fighting in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. Attempts by the African Union (AU) to enforce a cease-fire there have come to nothing.
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Sudan will allow African Union troops   to remain in its turbulent Darfur region but only if their AU   mandate was extended beyond September 30 and not as part of a   U.N. force, a presidential adviser said on Monday.
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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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KHARTOUM -- Sudan yesterday asked African Union forces monitoring a shaky truce in Darfur to leave the country by Sept. 30, as the government launched a new offensive that threatens a return to full-blown war. Khartoum last week rejected a UN Security Council resolution to deploy peacekeeping troops to replace the cash-strapped and ill-equipped AU force, and instead has moved ...
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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.
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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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The African Union says plans to begin deploying peacekeepers in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur this weekend will not go ahead.