Nigeria Wants AU Troops to Disarm Darfur Rebels
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday proposed to give a greater role to African Union (AU) troops in restoring peace to Sudan&#39;s Darfur region on the eve of talks between the Sudanese government and rebels.
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NEW YORK  - The African Union can quickly mobilize up to 5,000 troops to help end the looting and killing in western Sudan, but it needs hundreds of millions of dollars to deploy the force and so far it's received just &#36;20 million, says Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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The United Nations is seeking to disarm both rebels and government-backed militias in Darfur, a senior UN official says.
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An elite contingent of 50 Nigerian  soldiers left Nigeria on Thursday for Darfur, the first stage  in the deployment of 3,000 extra African Union (AU) troops to  monitor a shaky cease-fire in the western Sudanese region.
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Agriculture Minister insists Sudan can handle security situation in Darfur without need for AU peacekeepers. ABUJA - The head of Sudan&#39;s delegation to African Union-sponsored talks on the conflict in the western
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The African Union plans to send more  troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended peacekeeping  mission in war-ravaged Darfur, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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Sudan has asked African Union forces  monitoring a shaky truce in its violent Darfur region to leave  the country when their mandate ends on September 30, a  spokesman said on Sunday.
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African Union mediators sent a mission to Chad to seek to persuade nervous Sudanese rebel leaders to attend peace talks on the Darfur crisis in the Nigerian capital Abuja.
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Nigeria&#39;s president, Olusegun Obasanjo, said Thursday that the African Union, of which he is the chairman, had decided to send thousands of troops and monitors to help
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Nigerian President and African Union (AU) chairman Olusegun Obasanjo said Monday AU cease-fire monitors had confirmed Darfur rebel reports that the Sudan government launched fresh attacks on civilians last week.
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A joint United Nations-African  Union (AU) force took charge of peacekeeping in Darfur on  Monday, seeking to end almost five years of fighting in the  western Sudanese region.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Rebels from Sudan's Darfur  region Thursday rejected calls to disarm or confine their  fighters to their bases before a political solution to the  conflict.
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PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday restated that the African Union (AU) under his leadership, would remain at the forefront of efforts aimed at finding a quick resolution to the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on  Sunday proposed to give a greater role to African Union (AU)  troops in restoring peace to Sudan's Darfur region on the eve  of talks between the Sudanese government and rebels.
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Forty-seven Nigerian troops headed for Sudan&#39;s violence-racked Darfur region Thursday, the latest batch of soldiers being deployed to bolster an African Union peacekeeping force there.
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U.S. military aircraft flew 47 Nigerian troops to Darfur on Thursday, the first deployment of an expanded African Union mission that is expected to total 3,500 in the troubled Sudanese region.
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Days before a U.N. deadline for Sudan to disarm and prosecute those responsible for violence in the country's Darfur region, nations are looking to the African Union rather than any U.N. sanctions to curb further killing.