AU sets Darfur ceasefire deadline
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The African Union gives the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels until 1700 GMT on Sunday to stop fighting.
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ABUJA: Sudan will ignore a UN Security Council deadline to end militia attacks in Darfur by the end of the month and instead resolve the crisis through African Union peace talks, Khartoumâs chief negotiator said on Thursday.
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The African Union announced on   Wednesday it would extend the stay of its underfinanced force   in Sudan's Darfur region until the end of the year, heading off   an immediate worsening of the crisis.
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The African Union says Sudan&#39;s government is starting to withdraw troops from Darfur, heeding an AU demand to end fighting by Saturday.
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Peace talks aimed at ending a 22-month-old crisis in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region, scheduled for Friday in Nigerian capital Abuja, has been postponed for a day, a spokesman for the African Union said.
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The Sudanese government has agreed to stop a military offensive in Darfur province in a move that could prompt the two main rebel groups to end their boycott of African Union-sponsored peace talks, the chief AU mediator said.
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The African Union said on Saturday that  Sudan had started withdrawing troops in Darfur ahead of an  evening deadline to end fighting in the troubled region.
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir  said on Friday his government was willing to observe a  ceasefire in Darfur from the start of peace talks with the  rebels next month.
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The Sudanese Government has launched an offensive in the western region of Darfur and appears to be preparing further military action despite promises to respect a truce, the commander of the African Union (AU) observer force said.
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The African Union expressed deep  regret on Thursday after two Darfur rebel factions missed an AU  deadline to sign a peace deal aimed at ending the  three-year-old conflict in Sudan&#039;s remote west.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir said Friday he was ready to call a ceasefire in the Darfur conflict ahead of peace talks with rebels planned for next month.
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The Sudanese Government has agreed to stop a military offensive in the Darfur region in a move that could prompt the two main rebel groups to end a boycott of African Union-sponsored peace talks in Abuja, the chief AU mediator said.
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Sudan's government kept up attacks on rebels in Darfur on Saturday, defying a deadline set by African Union mediators for an end to active hostilities, AU officials said.
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The African Union (AU) pledged Thursday to increase its ceasefire observers from the current 1,000 to 3,320 in the troubled western Darfur region of Sudan.
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The African Union has reported 46 cases of ceasefire violations in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan since the last peace talks ended in Abuja, Nov. 24, 2004.
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Friday his government was willing to observe a ceasefire in Darfur from the start of peace talks next month.
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NAIROBI, Oct 21  -- The African Union is to increase from 465 to 3,320 the number of personnel monitoring a shaky ceasefire in Sudan&#39;s war-ravaged western Darfur region, the pan-African body said in a statement on Thursday.