Sudan must stop trying to limit Darfur force: Rice
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Sudan must stop trying to "scale back" a hybrid international force for Darfur, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said as she flew to Paris for talks on the humanitarian crisis in the western Sudanese region.
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Sudan's leader reiterates his opposition to UN  troops in Darfur as African leaders decide on their force's future.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has sent a letter to the U.N. secretary-general challenging a plan to send U.N. peacekeepers to Darfur &#151; a setback to international efforts to stop the region's escalating violence.
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Sudan has pledged to halt military operations in Darfur, a United Nations spokeswoman said Sunday, but African Union officials said the government had kept up attacks on rebels in the region.
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Sudan on Wednesday to quickly approve the makeup of a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, but Khartoum faulted donor states for delaying its deployment.
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The United States pressed Sudan's  government on Monday to stop its latest military action in the  western Darfur region and remove any obstacles preventing full  deployment of U.N.-African Union peacekeepers.
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The United States declared on Thursday that the violence in Sudan's Darfur region amounted to genocide and urged the world to back an expanded African peacekeeping force to halt the bloodshed.
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The Sudanese government is trying to meet U.N. demands to end the conflict in Darfur that has killed up to 50,000 people but needs to do more, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday accused Sudan&#39;s government of playing a &quot;cat and mouse&quot; game in the planned deployment of a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force for the troubled Darfur region.
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Rwanda's pledge of troops to protect civilians in Darfur should encourage other countries to press Sudan to accept more African Union troops to stop the killing there, Human Rights Watch said.
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The United Nations called on Wednesday for a quick and "substantially" larger international monitoring force in Sudan's Darfur region, saying Khartoum had failed to stop attacks against civilians by Arab militia.
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African Union forces are not equal to  task of securing Darfur and Sudan must allow them to be  replaced by a bigger, better-funded U.N. peacekeeping mission,  U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday.
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International efforts to stop  violence in Sudan's Darfur region have failed, U.S. Ambassador  John Danforth said on Tuesday, and he called for the African  Union to field more forces to halt atrocities there.
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Sudan rejected a wider role for African peacekeepers in putting down violence and disarming militiamen in the Darfur region, as Sudanese and rebel officials opened peace talks Monday under heavy international pressure to find a solution to the crisis.
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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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UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged patience to end the bloodshed in Darfur and voiced hope that Sudan would keep a pledge to allow a joint African Union-United Nations force in the war-torn region.
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U.S. Secretary of State  Condoleezza Rice strongly urged Sudan on Friday to accept a  "hybrid" international force for Darfur but was told the  African Union could do the job, a senior Sudanese official  said.