Unamid to begin mission in Darfur
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The new United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur in Sudan is due to start its operations on Monday.
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A joint African-United Nations force took over peacekeeping duties in Darfur on Monday, a long-awaited change that is intended to be the strongest effort yet to solve the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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Armed men opened fire on a U.N./African Union supply convoy in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, the first attack on the newly formed joint peacekeeping mission, officials said on Tuesday.
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World News, A senior United Nations envoy to Sudan will travel to the strife-torn region of Darfur tomorrow to inspect the areas where the Sudanese Government has claimed about 70,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have voluntarily returned to their
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Sudan's government and rebel groups will start talks on October 27 in Libya to push for peace in violence-torn Darfur before 26,000 peacekeepers deploy there, the United Nations and Khartoum announced on Thursday.
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Nairobi - The United Nations Security Council is to begin a rare meeting in Nairobi on Thursday to focus on peace in Sudan, amid mounting alarm over the conflict raging in the country&#39;s western region of Darfur.
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SUDAN yesterday said it would abide by a UN resolution to restore security to the crisis-torn Darfur region or face oil sanctions.
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UNITED NATIONS  - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for urgent action Thursday to stop attacks on civilians in western Sudan and announced he is sending UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour of Canada and a special adviser on genocide, Juan Mendes, to Sudan this weekend to see what can be done to provide better protection for civilians in the 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's violent Darfur region.
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The UN Security Council is to send a delegation to Sudan's war-torn Darfur region to witness the crisis there first hand, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail said.
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EL FASHER, Sudan -- The African Union transferred authority Monday to a new joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Darfur that the international community hopes will stem the violence in Sudan's war-torn western region.
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Sudanese and U.N. officials point at possible compromise over U.N. peacekeeping efforts for Darfur
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Sudan and the United Nations have agreed on key elements of a joint African Union-U.N. peacekeeping force for Darfur, including that its commander will be African, a U.N. diplomat said Sunday.
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The new U.N. human rights watchdog  agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan's  Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuses against  civilians.
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WASHINGTON -- The government of Sudan appears to have begun its long-feared military offensive in the troubled Darfur region against rebels who have refused to sign a US-brokered peace agreement, UN officials said yesterday.
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The United Nations is to send a special envoy to Sudan to coordinate assistance to the embattled African Union force deployed in war-torn Darfur, state media have reported.
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The new U.N. human rights watchdog agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan's Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuses against civilians.