Darfur peace talks to begin without key rebels
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SIRTE, Libya  - Delegations gathered in Libya on Saturday to launch talks to end 4-1/2 years of conflict in Sudan's Darfur region but the absence of key rebels cast doubt on whether negotiations could produce any meaningful deal.
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Sudan's government and its foes in the Darfur region's rebel movements will meet on Monday for peace talks which mark a last chance for African diplomacy to solve the crisis before the United Nations steps in.
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Darfur&#39;s largest rebel group has said it will send its military officials home from peace talks within the week to deal with what it claimed were fresh attacks in the bloodied western Sudan province.
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Peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur's main rebel movements have been suspended until January, according to a joint statement from the parties released by the African Union.
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Sudan&#39;s rebels and government broke off internationally brokered peace talks for the bloodied Darfur region Wednesday after three weeks with little progress and no deal.
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ABUJA  - Peace talks on the conflict in the Sudanese region of Darfur ran straight into trouble on the first day of formal negotiations as angry rebel leaders refused to sign an agreement to protect civilians.
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N'DJAMEMA  - Rebel groups from Sudan's violent Darfur region on Friday suspended a meeting to forge a common position for peace talks with the government, hoping more rebels would join in the consultations, a mediator said.
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A Darfur rebel group said on Thursday it  refused to return to African Union-sponsored peace talks in the  Nigerian capital Abuja and rejected the pan-African body as  mediator to end the 22-month-old conflict.
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The United Nations and the African Union have just seven weeks to persuade major rebel factions to attend new Darfur peace talks in Libya &#151; a tough job because a key rebel leader immediately rejected any negotiations until there is a cease-fire.
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EL-FASHER - Darfur's two main rebel groups will not attend UN-African Union mediated peace talks due to start in Libya today, their leaders said. Spokesmen for the Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudan Liberation Army-Unity faction said they took the step because mediators had not invited key rebel groups to the talks.
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A Darfur rebel group said on Thursday it refused to return to African Union-sponsored peace talks in the Nigerian capital Abuja and rejected the pan-African body as mediator to end the 22-month-old conflict.
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Sudan's government on Saturday ruled out discussion of an African Union proposal to send peacekeepers into the conflict-ridden Darfur region during the latest peace talks with rebels.
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Rebel leaders pulled out of peace talks on the crisis in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, accusing the government of repeatedly breaching a ceasefire deal, spokesmen for their movements said.
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Sudan's two Darfur rebel groups walked out of peace talks in Nigeria for 24 hours Saturday, saying they needed to mourn 75 civilians killed by Sudanese government forces and Arab Janjaweed militia in the last three days.
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A new round of peace talks on the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region stalled Tuesday when rebels refused face-to-face talks with the government until African Union mediators meet separately with both sides to draft an agenda.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Darfur peace talks kicked off  four days late in Nigeria Monday amid mounting international  concerns of a resurgence of fighting in the remote Sudan  region.
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Darfur's two main rebel groups  will not attend U.N.-African Union mediated peace talks in  Libya, their leaders said on Friday, dashing any chance of an  immediate deal to end 4-1/2 years of war in western Sudan.