Darfur troop deployment delayed
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The African Union says plans to begin deploying peacekeepers in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur this weekend will not go ahead.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Monday the United Nations should send a peacekeeping force to the troubled Darfur region of Sudan as soon as possible without further delay.
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The United Nations and the African Union were close to a deal on Wednesday on fielding 23,000 peacekeepers in Sudan's violent Darfur region, but full deployment is not expected until next year at the earliest.
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THE fate of two million people fighting for survival in the Sudan will be decided in the next 24 hours. Red Cross trucks loaded with food and relief supplies are poised to enter Sudan&#39;s arid Darfur region.
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Sudan says it is not yet ready to accept a larger African Union peacekeeping force in the troubled region.
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ABU SHOUK CAMP, Sudan  - Darfuris who have waited almost five years in miserable camps have high expectations for a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force due to deploy by the end of the year.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 17 (IPS) - The deployment of a European Union peacekeeping  force in Eastern Chad has fallen behind schedule amid fears that  its French-dominated troops could come under attack after setting  foot in the troubled African state.
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The U.S. military, seeking to   maintain its current elevated troop levels in Iraq, intends to   delay the upcoming departure of roughly 3,500 soldiers serving   in the Ramadi area, defense officials said on Monday.
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Sudan's failure to approve some  non-African units of a U.N.-African peacekeeping force for  Darfur is delaying preparations for its January 1 deployment, a  U.N. official warned on Thursday.
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British military chiefs have been told to get ready for sending thousands of troops to the troubled region of Darfur in Sudan in 2005, the Independent newspaper reported on Sunday.
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African forces should be fully  deployed to Sudan's troubled Darfur region by the end of the  year despite some delays in building the infrastructure to  house them, the new head of the African Union mission said on  Saturday.
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Rebels from Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region said a new round of peace talks on Thursday would be delayed by two days because of logistical problems with sending their delegation to the Nigerian capital Abuja.
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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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Sudan postpones a census that is crucial for the success of two upcoming national polls, the UN says.
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The African Union says its first contingent of peacekeepers for the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur will be deployed this weekend.
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PARIS, Feb. 1 -- The European Union said Friday it had postponed the deployment of a peacekeeping force to protect Darfur refugees because of an upsurge of rebel activity in neighboring Chad.
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Rwanda's army says there are delays in paying Darfur peace troops as the African Union lacks cash.