New Darfur peace force begins mission
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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.
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The new U.N. human rights watchdog agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan's Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuses against civilians.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan  - Dozens of Rwandan soldiers arrived in Sudan's troubled Darfur region Sunday, the first foreign armed force deployed in the area since Arab militiamen began a rampage against black African farmers, killing thousands.
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Armed men opened fire on a  U.N./African Union supply convoy in Sudan's war-torn Darfur  region, the first attack on the newly formed joint peacekeeping  mission, officials said on Tuesday.
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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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UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force faced the first major challenge to its authority in Darfur, Sudan, this week, enduring more than 10 minutes of hostile fire from Sudanese forces without responding with a single shot.
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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.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon holds talks with Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir on Thursday to win his support for a rapid deployment of a massive new peacekeeping force in Darfur, a region wracked by four years of war and human suffering.
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African Union mediators have presented the Sudanese government and rebel groups with a new security deal, in an attempt to end the conflict in Darfur.
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Rwandan troops arrive in Sudan to help protect ceasefire monitors in the war-ravaged Darfur region.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 5 -- Sudan stepped up opposition to a U.N. peacekeeping mission for Darfur, warning that it would consider any country's pledge to supply police or troops to a U.N. force "a hostile act" and a "prelude to an invasion" of the Islamic country.
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The new U.N. human rights watchdog  agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan's  Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuse in what  activists called a "timid" first step to confront the crisis.
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The U.N. Security Council on   Thursday voted to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in   Sudan's Darfur region but troops will not be deployed without   consent from the Khartoum government.
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More peacekeepers are expected in Sudan's Darfur region, as the bloodshed there goes on.
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The African Union transferred authority Monday to a new joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Darfur that the international community hopes will stem the violence in Sudan's war-torn western region.
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The United Nations secured its first pledges for a proposed major UN peacekeeping force for the strife-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, officials said.
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A new joint African Union-United Nations force was poised to take over peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday from an AU mission which has struggled to stem nearly five years of violence in the western Sudanese region.