Nigerian Protection Force En Route to Darfur
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An elite contingent of 50 Nigerian  soldiers flew to Darfur on Thursday aboard a U.S. military  plane, the first of 3,000 extra African Union troops deployed  to monitor a shaky cease-fire in Sudan's vast western region.
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A 155-strong company of Nigerian infantry flew out of Abuja, heading for the war-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur to join an African Union force protecting ceasefire monitors.
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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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Thousands of African troops were preparing for deployment in Darfur yesterday after Sudan agreed a 10-fold expansion of the African Union force in the region.
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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's violent Darfur region.
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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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Rwandan forces arrived in the Sudanese western region of Darfur on Saturday to join Nigerian troops in monitoring a shaky cease-fire in the war-torn region, officials said.
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The European Union is to draw up plans for a force to go to countries neighbouring Sudan's Darfur region.
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Rwandan troops arrived in Darfur Sunday as the first foreign force there, mandated to protect observers monitoring a shaky cease-fire between the Sudanese government and rebels in the remote western region.
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The United Nations and the African Union drew up plans for a peacekeeping force for Darfur of more than 23,000 troops, police and other personnel to protect civilians and be able to use force to deter violence.
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ABUJA, Aug 18  -- The Nigerian senate said on Wednesday it would ask its defence committee to consider a request by President Olusegun Obasanjo for permission to deploy some 1,500 peacekeepers to Sudan&#39;s war-torn Darfur region.
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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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Sudan agrees to a revised plan for a joint UN-African Union peace force to be sent to Darfur, AU sources say.
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A beefed-up joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur is set to take over from the current under-manned AU force on Monday in a bid to end years of bloodshed.
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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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ABUJA  - Nigeria will begin sending troops to join a newly expanded African truce-monitoring force in the war torn Sudanese region of Darfur on Thursday, the country&#39;s top military spokesman said.
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Peacekeepers from the African Union will be increased to help protect civilians in the afflicted Sudanese region of Darfur, the country&#39;s foreign minister said Thursday.