Sudan softens position on Darfur
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N&#39;DJAMENA, Chad -- The UN high commissioner for refugees proposed autonomy for the troubled Darfur region of Sudan - a solution the government has resisted.
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SUDAN rejected an African Union (AU) demand today that it pull back its forces from positions seized during its latest two-week-old offensive against rebels in the Darfur region, pushing peace talks to the brink of collapse.
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Sudan rejected an African Union demand that it pull back its forces from positions seized during its latest two-week-old offensive against rebels in the Darfur region, pushing peace talks to the brink of collapse.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Sudan's government and rebels ended talks on the country's troubled Darfur region yesterday, with agreements on security and refugees but no pact on a long-term resolution to the violence.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan Sept. 19, 2004 - A US-backed United Nations resolution threatening oil sanctions for the violence in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region will only make it harder for the government to calm the insurrection there, a Sudanese official said Sunday.
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The African Union said Sudan began  withdrawing troops in Darfur before a Saturday deadline to end  fighting in the western region, but Khartoum said the pull-back  was conditional on rebels halting attacks.
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KHARTOUM : Violence and human rights abuses in Sudan&#39;s conflict-torn Darfur region have diminished, but both Khartoum and the two rebel groups have to work harder to bring peace, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers said.
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Sudan said Thursday it would permit the U.N. to lay the groundwork for possible deployment of a peacekeeping force in Darfur, but cautioned that the world body&#039;s role would be smaller than some Security Council members want.
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Sudan has eased access to its troubled Darfur region for relief workers and supplies but hasn&#39;t disbanded the marauding militia that caused 1.5 million people to flee their homes
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan has pledged to halt military operations in Darfur, a United Nations spokeswoman said yesterday, but African Union officials said the government had kept up attacks on rebels in the region.
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Sudan's president again rejected the deployment of U.N. peacekeeping troops in the war-torn Darfur region during a meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Saturday. But one of the country's two vice presidents said he would accept international intervention.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The African Union said yesterday that the situation in Sudan's troubled Darfur region was worsening because of the return of re armed janjaweed militia and Khartoum's resolve to use military force.
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KHARTOUM, 1 September 2004 - Conditions are worsening for refugees in Darfur, UN agencies said yesterday, as the Sudanese government and rebels struggled to make headway in talks aiming to ease the conflict in the Darfur region.
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Sudan has pledged to halt military operations in Darfur, a United Nations spokeswoman said Sunday, but African Union officials said the government had kept up attacks on rebels in the region.
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GENEVA : Humanitarian organisations expressed alarm over worsening security in Sudan&#39;s conflict-wracked Darfur region, where the UN refugee agency has been forced to cancel several missions.
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UNITED NATIONS, June 2 -- The African Union has objected to a proposed joint A.U.-U.N. peacekeeping force in Sudan's troubled Darfur region because the United Nations would be in command, U.N. diplomats said.
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ABUJA, Nigeria Aug. 23, 2004 - A senior Sudanese official on Monday rejected an immediate wider role for African Union troops in the troubled Darfur region, saying security there was the responsibility of Sudanese forces.