UN refugee head backs partial autonomy for Darfur
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NAIROBI - The war-torn Darfur region in western Sudan should be given more autonomy by the government in Khartoum, the head of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) was quoted as saying on Friday.
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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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N'DJAMENA, Chad  - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees proposed autonomy for the troubled Darfur region of Sudan - a solution the government has resisted. But it said Friday it would be willing to discuss the position anew in an effort to end the violence that has killed 50,000 people.
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UNITED NATIONS Annan backs US bid on Sudan resolution Secretary General Kofi Annan yesterday threw his weight behind a US-drafted resolution on Sudan's Darfur region, saying the Security Council should adopt it immediately to stop atrocities. &quot;It is urgent to act now. Civilians are still being attacked and fleeing their villages as we speak,&quot; Annan told reporters of the resolution ...
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Sudan will allow human rights groups to visit refugee camps in Darfur, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says.
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Sudan is in denial about the extent of rape in refugee camps in its traumatised Darfur region where fear and distrust of the government is pervasive, the United Nations&#39; top human rights official says.
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Back in Geneva following a weeklong visit to the troubled Darfur region of Sudan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today said the external security and humanitarian presence there should be quickly expanded.
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UN refugee workers are readying themselves for an influx of refugees from Darfur as people in the western Sudan region take advantage of the end of the rainy season and a promised government clampdown on militia violence.
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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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The head of the US Agency for International Development, USAID, has just returned from Sudanâs Darfur region. Andrew Natsios says more than one million people have been displaced because the conflict there
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The leader of Sudan&#39;s southern rebel movement says the humanitarian crisis in the country&#39;s western Darfur region can only be solved by forming a new government of national unity.
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The UN's emergency relief co-ordinator says the refugee camps in Darfur are militarised and dangerous.
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Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said here on Monday that his government is open to the idea of granting some sort of autonomy to the western Darfur region where
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Sudan has asked the United Nations to  help verify reports that 190,000 refugees from the conflict-hit  western Darfur region have voluntarily returned to their homes,  the U.N. refugee agency chief said on Tuesday.
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An ex-Darfur rebel who is special assistant to Sudan's president says Khartoum still backs the Arab militia.
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Sudan is obliged to ask for international support if it cannot protect the nearly 1.5 million people displaced by fighting in its remote Darfur region, the top UN envoy in Sudan said on Thursday.
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Sudan&#39;s foreign minister on Thursday dismissed claims by the United Nations that his country&#39;s Darfur region is experiencing the world&#39;s worst humanitarian crisis, saying instead