Sudan troops in Darfur offensive
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The UN Sudan envoy says government forces are running intensive military operations in west 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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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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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Darfur rebels attacked an oil field in a rare extension of their campaign east toward the Sudanese capital and said yesterday the military garrison guarding the field had surrendered.
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UN mission officials in Sudan said Friday they hope an expanded African force will be on the ground in Darfur by the end of October, after Sudan&#39;s foreign minister agreed to allow in 3,500 outside troops.
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The African Union plans to send more   troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended peacekeeping   mission in war-ravaged Darfur, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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EL-FASHER, Sudan  - A contingent of 50 Nigerian  soldiers arrived in Darfur on Thursday aboard a U.S. military  plane, the first of 3,000 extra African Union troops deployed  to monitor a shaky cease-fire in Sudan's western region.
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Sudan denied Wednesday that its army opened fire on a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers attacked in Darfur barely a week into their new mission.
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Dozens of Rwandan soldiers flew into 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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Chadian troops and Darfur rebels launch an attack in Sudan's western region, diplomatic sources say.
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Rwandan forces arrived in the Sudanese western region of Darfur on Saturday to join Nigerian troops in monitoring a shaky cease-fire in the war-torn region, officials said.
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Aid workers in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region have been airlifted to safety amid new fighting between government and rebel troops in a major town.
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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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Large quantities of arms and ammunition have poured into Darfur in the last two weeks and the government appears to be preparing for a major military offensive, the African Union (AU) said on Friday.
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The Sudanese army began an  offensive in the mountainous Jabel Moun area on Tuesday in its  latest attempt to reclaim the West Darfur district from  insurgents who took up arms five years ago.
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Darfur rebels attacked a government troop convoy in recent days and are using a presence in at least one refugee camp to target police, a Sudanese governor said on Wednesday.
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Forty-three Nigerian troops flew to Sudan&#39;s violence-wracked Darfur region on Thursday, the first of thousands of soldiers being deployed to bolster a tiny African Union peacekeeping force.