UN to back French Darfur plan
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The UN Security Council is set to back a French plan to send UN and EU forces to protect refugees from Darfur.
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Officials said the European Union will provide up to $125 million to back African peacekeepers in Darfur, as the United Nations warned Friday that crucial relief convoys are in danger.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad promised on Friday to back United Nations moves to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region by allowing international peacekeepers on its own soil, and even offered to host preliminary peace talks.
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The United Nations proposed on Wednesday a quick and "substantially" larger international force in Sudan's Darfur region, saying Khartoum had failed to stop attacks against civilians by Arab militia.
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The European Union and the  United Nations are considering sending troops and police to  protect Darfur refugees and other homeless people in  neighboring Chad, a senior U.N. official said on Friday.
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Sudan said Thursday it would permit the U.N. to lay the groundwork for possible deployment of a peacekeeping force in Darfur, but cautioned that the world body&#039;s role would be smaller than some Security Council members want.
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Britain, France and Ghana on Wednesday circulated a revised Security Council draft resolution authorizing joint African Union-UN peacekeeping in Darfur for an initial period of 12 months.
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The U.N. Security Council  endorsed 40 pages of plans on Friday 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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The U.N. Security Council endorsed 40 pages of plans on Friday 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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UNITED NATIONS, June 2 -- The African Union has objected to a proposed joint A.U.-U.N. peacekeeping force in Sudan's troubled Darfur region because the United Nations would be in command, U.N. diplomats said.
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France chairs a Security Council summit on Africa here Tuesday expected to endorse sending European Union and UN troops to Chad and the Central African Republic to protect civilians reeling from a spillover of the Darfur conflict.
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The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a French resolution endorsing sending a European Union-UN  force to Chad and the Central African Republic to protect civilians reeling from a spillover of the Darfur conflict.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday threw his weight behind a U.S.-drafted resolution on Sudan's Darfur region, saying the Security Council should adopt it immediately to stop atrocities.
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The African Union reaffirms it will pull out of Darfur, after Sudan rejected  UN plans to take control of the mission.
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Looking to end the crisis in Darfur, France won agreement on Thursday from three involved African nations that they would not support armed rebel movements on each other's territories.Comment
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The U.N. Security Council on   Thursday voted to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in   Sudan's Darfur region but troops will not be deployed without   consent from the Khartoum government.
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A Paris meeting aimed a galvanizing  efforts to stabilize Sudan&#39;s Darfur region ended on Monday with  agreement to support current international efforts there and  coordinate future steps.