AU Says Sudan Has Started Darfur Troop Withdrawal
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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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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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The commander of the African Union&#39;s observer force in Darfur, Sudan, says the Sudanese government appears to be preparing a major military offensive against rebels in the region.
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Sudan is withdrawing its forces from recently occupied positions in the bloodied Darfur region, heeding an African Union demand for a pullback in an effort to restart stalled peace talks, a Union official said Saturday.
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Bugged by pressure both from the African Union (AU) and the international community, the Sudanese government has announced its readiness to withdraw its troops fromthe troubled Darfur region.
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KHARTOUM -- The UN secretary general warned yesterday that Sudan would bear full responsibility for the worsening humanitarian crisis in Darfur if African Union peacekeepers pull out by month's end because of the government's refusal to allow a UN-led force to take over. The cash-starved and understaffed African Union force, whose mandate ends Sept. 30, has been unable to halt ...
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Sudan rejected an African Union (AU) 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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KHARTOUM -- Sudan yesterday asked African Union forces monitoring a shaky truce in Darfur to leave the country by Sept. 30, as the government launched a new offensive that threatens a return to full-blown war. Khartoum last week rejected a UN Security Council resolution to deploy peacekeeping troops to replace the cash-strapped and ill-equipped AU force, and instead has moved ...
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The African Union said it would leave the Darfur region by the end of the month if Sudan did not allow U.N. peacekeepers to take over its mission.
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The African Union said on Saturday that Sudan had started withdrawing troops in Darfur ahead of an evening deadline to end fighting in the troubled region.
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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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The African Union (AU) said on Tuesday it had information that its force in Darfur's main town could come under attack within 24 hours from rebels and members of a group that signed a peace deal with the Sudan government.
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The African Union, the United Nations and the Sudanese government opened talks here Monday on the deployment of a hybrid AU-UN force of 23,000 peacekeepers to Sudan&#39;s war-torn region of Darfur.
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Sudan said Monday that African Union peacekeepers will have to leave Darfur unless they accept a deal within a week that would effectively block a proposed U.N. force.
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The African Union (AU) has issued a 24-hour deadline to the Sudanese Government and Darfur rebels to end fighting after a massive military build-up in the region over the past two weeks.
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ABUJA, Nigeria Huge quantities of arms and ammunition have poured into Sudan&#39;s Darfur region in the past two weeks and the government is poised for a major military offensive, the African Union said Friday.
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A new joint African Union-United Nations force took over peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday from an AU mission which has struggled to stem nearly five years of brutal conflict in the western Sudanese region.