EU to Deploy Troops to Africa
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Foreign ministers formally gave the go-ahead for the Union's biggest-ever peacekeeping force outside Europe
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Tony Blair, the British prime minister, wants Africa to be the &quot;top priority&quot; for a new European Union military force that could be deployed in crisis areas at short notice.
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The African Union plans to send more   troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended Darfur peacekeeping   mission, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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BELGRADE - In a major move to boost its military might, the European Union took over the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Thursday.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's President Idriss Deby called on the European Union on Thursday to deploy a peacekeeping force urgently to the east after rebels who raided his capital pulled back halfway towards the Sudan border.
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EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Saturday the European Union and its member states would contribute more than &#36;100 million to an African Union (AU) force in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair called for the European Union to develop the capability to deploy troops to Africa within 10 days by next year, part of plans to fight poverty, disease and war in the region.
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The EU will open its first job centre in Africa, to prevent migrants risking their lives by entering Europe illegally.
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European Union nations agreed Monday to start planning for a possible 3,000-member peacekeeping mission to Chad to help provide security and aid to tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in neighboring Darfur.
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The African Union is to begin  deploying more than 3,000 additional troops to Sudan's Darfur  region within the next two weeks, the head of the 53-member  organization's security organ said Wednesday.
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The EU added its voice to a chorus of international concern over the presence of Rwandan troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that threaten to undermine the fragile peace in the region.
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France announced Thursday it would plug gaps in a European peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic, with the deployment delayed by equipment shortages now possible for next month.
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During his trip the prime minister pledged that British troops would spearhead an EU military reaction force which will respond in African troublespots.
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The European Union rushed more  peacekeepers to Congo on Tuesday as the U.N. and foreign  leaders struggled to end fighting between soldiers loyal to  President Joseph Kabila and supporters of his election rival.
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France, Belgium and Poland pledged Friday to fill the gaps in a European peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic, setting the delayed mission on track to be deployed next month.
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NOORDWIJK (The Netherlands) - Five European states yesterday agreed to a French proposal to set up a joint military-run gendarmerie force able to be deployed to crisis situations worldwide.
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The European Union agreed on Monday to  send a mission to help train local police in Afghanistan, whose  government is struggling with an Islamist insurgency.