New peace force on way to Darfur
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Thousands of African troops were preparing for deployment in Darfur yesterday after Sudan agreed a 10-fold expansion of the African Union force in the region.
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The European Union is to draw up plans for a force to go to countries neighbouring Sudan's Darfur region.
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The move appeared intended to stymie plans for a U.N. peacekeeping force to take over from the beleaguered African Union force in Darfur.
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Sudan agreed on Tuesday to a combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force of more than 20,000 troops and police to be deployed in its troubled Darfur region after months of intense diplomacy.
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The extension of the African Union's mandate in Sudan's Darfur has been welcomed by all sides but tough negotiations on a transition to a UN peacekeeping force were set to continue.
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The UN special envoy to Sudan has welcomed an African Union announcement that it will begin deploying armed peacekeepers to Darfur on Sunday.
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More peacekeepers are expected in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region on Thursday, as the bloodshed there goes on. Nigeria is sending about 50 troops to augment nearly 400 African Union soldiers already on the ground.
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A UN Security Council team held talks in Khartoum on Sunday to thrash out the details of a beefed up peacekeeping force for Darfur after the Sudan government finally gave its green light to the plan.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The African Union said yesterday it will send more peacekeeping troops to Sudan's Darfur region and toughen the soldiers' role in protecting civilians while the international community pressures the Sudanese government to allow a UN military force.
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The U.N. Security Council yesterday approved a long-sought resolution that would place an expanded peacekeeping force in Sudan's troubled Darfur region under U.N. authority, even as the government appeared to have begun a new offensive against rebel forces.
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Around 30 Ugandan military officers on Thursday arrived in Somalia, the first members of an African Union peacekeeping force that is due to be deployed in the country.
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The African Union&#39;s peace and security council Wednesday formally agreed to send as many as 3,200 African peacekeepers to the Darfur region of Sudan to help halt violence
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A UN Security Council team and African Union officials on Saturday discussed the speedy deployment of a hybrid force in Darfur following Khartoum&#39;s long-awaited nod for the peacekeepers.
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Sudan will deploy new integrated forces in Darfur to work alongside African Union peacekeepers in providing security in the region, President Omar al-Beshir said.
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Bringing peace to Darfur will not be  easy but a joint U.N.-African Union force should be much more  effective than the AU peacekeepers currently struggling to hold  the ring, the new force commander said on Thursday.
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ABUJA : A final group of rebel field commanders arrived from the wartorn western Sudanese province of Darfur, clearing the way for the start of formal peace negotiations with the Khartoum government.
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The first African troops tasked with protecting ceasefire monitors in Sudan's western region of Darfur have arrived in the war-torn region amid warnings from Khartoum against upgrading the status of the contingent to a peacekeeping force.