U.N. Sudan aid chief says Darfur sides ready for talks
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All sides in the conflict in Darfur are ready to start talks to renegotiate a year-old peace accord rejected by many Darfuris as inadequate, the top U.N. humanitarian chief in Sudan said on Friday.
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The U.N. peacekeeping chief on Wednesday called Sudan's acceptance of a joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur "a significant step forward," although he cautioned "it's not the end of the road."
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The U.N. Security Council  demanded on Wednesday that Sudan's government and Darfur rebels  attend peace talks starting over the weekend and threatened  action against anyone impeding the negotiations.
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Sudan's government and main rebel group are ready to clinch a final deal to end more than 20 years of war within days of talks resuming next week, spokesman for both sides said, a day before the UN Security Council opens a rare meeting in Nairobi on the country's peace process.
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A ceasefire and political talks must take place in Sudan's Darfur region before an international military force there could guarantee security, the head of U.N. peacekeeping said on Tuesday.
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Sudan's president says he is ready to call a ceasefire with rebels ahead of peace talks on Darfur next month.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Warring parties in Sudan's  western Darfur region are showing no urgency in the search for  a political solution to a conflict that has caused a  humanitarian catastrophe, the top U.N. envoy in Sudan said  Wednesday.
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The United Nations chief on Monday welcomed the end to a three-month political dispute that threatened to re-ignite civil war in southern Sudan, but urged both sides to fully implement an earlier peace deal to help stabilize their region of Africa.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is sending a top aide to Sudan to press his case for bolstering an African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur with substantial U.N. resources, a spokesman said on Monday.
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Sudan's government is preparing a major offensive in Darfur, says the head of the African observer team.
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The U.N. Security Council, on a  high-profile visit to the Kenyan capital, expects Sudan and its  southern opposition on Thursday to promise to complete by Dec.  31 a comprehensive peace agreement ending a 21-year civil war.
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UN Security Council envoys are to meet Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to discuss deploying troops in Darfur.
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The special United Nations envoy to Sudan Jan Eliasson said on Sunday that the &quot;moment of truth&quot; for the country&#39;s war-torn western region of Darfur is imminent.
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Sudan's government is willing to meet rebel groups from Darfur anywhere, any time and would commit to a unilateral cease-fire while peace talks are held, Khartoum's ambassador to the United Nations said on Thursday.
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Sudanese and U.N. officials point at possible compromise over U.N. peacekeeping efforts for Darfur
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Sudan's conflict-ridden Darfur region   faces a humanitarian "catastrophe" without rapid action to   improve security and get aid to those in need, the head of the   U.N. refugee agency said on Friday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Monday that a recent surge of fighting in Sudan's Darfur region could hurt next month's political negotiations on ending the four-year conflict.