Nigeria Troops Leave For Darfur
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Nigeria sent over 100 troops to Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region on Monday, its contribution to a joint force with Rwanda protecting African Union cease-fire observers.
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The African Union is to decide early October whether it will send 3,000- to 5,000 troops to the troubled region Darfur to help stop the violence there, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said.
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Sudan and the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force have agreed the terms under which the 26,000-strong force will deploy in western Darfur, officials said on Monday, removing a major barrier to its operations.
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SUDAN has agreed to a joint withdrawal of government and rebel forces in Darfur and will accept a large rise in international ceasefire monitors, Tony Blair said last night as he left Khartoum for the second session of his Commission for Africa in Ethiopia
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Nigeria&#39;s President Olusegun Obasanjo warned Sudan to move more quickly to disarm the feared Janjaweed militia and called for African Union peacekeepers to be sent to Darfur.
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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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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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U.N. mission officials in Sudan said Friday they hope an expanded African force will be on the ground in Darfur by the end of October, after Sudan's foreign minister agreed to allow in 3,500 outside troops.
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Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo called for lawmakers to approve the deployment of up to 1,500 peacekeeping troops to Sudan's war-torn province of Darfur, as Khartoum pledged to restore order there.
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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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Sudanese troops used force to relocate hundreds of homeless Darfur families, humanitarian officials say.
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The African Union said Saturday that Sudan had started withdrawing troops in the Darfur region ahead of an evening deadline to end fighting there, but the government
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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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Sudanese Darfur rebels arrived in Nigeria  on Sunday ahead of peace talks under the African Union (AU) to  resolve a conflict that has killed up to 50,000 and displaced  more than a million people.
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KHARTOUM -- Sudan yesterday asked African Union forces monitoring a shaky truce in its violent Darfur region to leave the country by Sept. 30, as Khartoum launched a new offensive threatening a return to full-blown war.
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Sudan agreed on Tuesday to a combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force of more than 20,000 troops and police to be deployed in its troubled Darfur region after months of intense diplomacy.