U.N. force in Darfur to get helicopters
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Ethiopia and Bangladesh have offered to jump-start the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Darfur by loaning it helicopters to fly troops and supplies around the vast region in western Sudan, officials said Tuesday.
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The U.N. Security Council on  Thursday voted to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in  Sudan's Darfur region to avert a new humanitarian disaster, but  the Khartoum government rejected the resolution as "illegal."
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U.N. Security Council members landed  in Khartoum on Sunday looking for assurances for speedy  deployment of at least 20,000 U.N. and African Union police and  troops to Sudan&#39;s violent Darfur region.
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JUBA, Sudan  - U.N. officials in Sudan are planning the first major airlift to help tens of thousands of south Sudanese return home after years of conflict.
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Sudan has accepted a United  Nations-African Union peacekeeping force of up to 23,000 troops  and police for Darfur but some U.N. diplomats fear conditions  may be attached.
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The U.S. Air Force on Friday sent  three cargo planes to carry Rwandan forces and equipment to  Darfur to assist an African Union peacekeeping effort in the  violent region of western Sudan.
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The first Rwandan peacekeeping troops have been airlifted into the Sudanese region of Darfur aboard two US transport planes. Sixty-five Rwandan officers and soldiers arrived with their supplies.
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The United States pressed Sudan on   Monday to accept a U.N. force in its troubled Darfur region, as   U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Khartoum its military   bombardment of the region was illegal.
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The U.N. Security Council will  recommend that the world body fund a joint African Union-U.N.  peacekeeping mission for Darfur, after receiving assurances it  would be controlled by the U.N, envoys said on Sunday.
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 30 -- Sudan may consent to a U.N. peacekeeping force in its Darfur region sooner than expected once the Security Council adopts a resolution authorizing it, U.S. Ambassador John R. Bolton said Wednesday.
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The new United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur in Sudan is due to start its operations on Monday.
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The U.N. Security Council is  expected to authorize up to 26,000 troops and police for Darfur  but implementation will take months providing the world body  finds enough personnel and Sudan cooperates.
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Thirty U.S. Air Force members from Europe arrived Thursday in Kigali, Rwanda, to prepare for a two-week airlift mission of Rwandan peacekeepers to the Darfur region of Sudan.
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The United Nations has welcomed a proposal by Egypt to send 2,500 troops to Darfur as part of a joint UN-African Union force aimed at ending violence in western Sudan, a senior Egyptian diplomat said.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will press for speedy deployment of a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force in Darfur and a quick start to new peace talks to end the four-year conflict there during his visit to Sudan starting Monday.
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BOCA RATON, Fla.  - President George W. Bush on Monday told the Pentagon to make two U.S. transport planes available to aid African peacekeeping forces seeking to end a humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
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A high-level United Nations delegation arrived Tuesday in Sudan to press a reluctant government to accept a large force of U.N. peacekeepers in the strife-torn Darfur region.