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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Rwandan troops were airlifted on Sunday  to Sudan's Darfur as the first foreign force there, mandated to  protect observers monitoring a cease-fire between the Sudanese  government and rebels in the troubled western region.
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EL FASHER, Sudan -- The African Union transferred authority Monday to a new joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Darfur that the international community hopes will stem the violence in Sudan's war-torn western region.
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The Sudanese government asked African Union peacekeepers to leave Darfur by the end of the month and said it would continue to deploy its own troops in the western region.
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A United Nations fact-finding mission on Thursday left for Ethiopia&#39;s eastern Ogaden region where the government is battling insurgents amid reports of human rights abuses, an official said.
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The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said Thursday that it is temporarily withdrawing some key international staff from strife-torn south Darfur in Sudan.
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The United Nations has airlifted dozens of its own and other agencies' staff out of the main Darfur town of El Fasher and said on Wednesday it was prepared for more evacuations if the already tense situation worsens.
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The United Nations and the African Union agreed Thursday on a highly mobile, robust joint force to help protect civilians and restore security to the Darfur region &#151; but Sudan still holds the key to its deployment.
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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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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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Nigerian security forces said they would flush out members of an armed Islamic extremist group holed up on mountains on the border with Cameroon in a matter of hours.
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Two senior United Nations human rights officials examining how to protect the civilians of Sudan&#39;s strife-torn Darfur region from further militia attacks have completed their weeklong mission to the region and have now returned to the capital Khartoum for
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KHARTOUM, Oct 29  - Sudan has given a contingent of Nigerian troops in Darfur until Saturday to produce certificates proving they are not infected with the HIV virus or undergo screening, the official SUNA news agency reported Friday.
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UNITED NATIONS - The African Union communicated to the UN Thursday its decision to send an expanded force of troops and police with a broad mandate to protect aid workers, monitors and civilians in Sudanâs strife-torn Darfur region.
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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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Forty-three Nigerian troops flew to Sudan&#39;s violence-wracked Darfur region on Thursday, the first of thousands of soldiers being deployed to bolster a tiny African Union peacekeeping force.
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Forty-seven Nigerian troops headed for Sudan&#39;s violence-racked Darfur region Thursday, the latest batch of soldiers being deployed to bolster an African Union peacekeeping force there.