Backgrounder: African Union&#39;s efforts to end Darfur crisis
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The United National Security Council will begin a two-day extraordinary session here on Thursday to push Sudan&#39;s north-south peace negotiations to a conclusion and to stop a
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Saying they hoped African leaders could solve what the United Nations calls the world&#39;s worst humanitarian crisis without sanctions, the leaders of Egypt, Chad, Nigeria and Libya discussed the crisis in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region with the
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Sept. 25 -- The African Union will add 4,000 troops to its Darfur peacekeeping mission, bolstering the 7,000 poorly funded and under-equipped A.U. forces currently monitoring a battered cease-fire.
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LIBREVILLE, Gabon  - Three of Africa's big crises  -- strife in Ivory Coast, fighting in Congo and the  humanitarian emergency in Sudan's Darfur -- provide a daunting  agenda for an African Union summit that began Monday in Gabon.
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African Union-sponsored peace negotiations on the crisis in the western Sudanese region of Darfur resumed in the Nigerian capital, with delegates from the EU, the League of Arab States, the UN and two main rebel groups in attendance.
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The leaders of Sudan and four neighbouring states, in a bid to avert UN sanctions on Khartoum, pledged to work to resolve the Darfur crisis at the African level, but rebel groups remained sceptical.
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African Union heads of state Thursday began a three-day summit in Addis Ababa focused on the deadly crisis in Kenya and the challenges facing the body's peacekeeping missions.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The African Union said yesterday that the situation in Sudan's troubled Darfur region was worsening because of the return of re armed janjaweed militia and Khartoum's resolve to use military force.
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Talks on the conflict in the western Sudanese region of Darfur resumed here Monday, aimed at ending what was described by the United Nations as the world&#39;s worst humanitarian crisis.
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The United Nations and European Union were urged today to muster a more effective international response to the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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African Union (AU) mediators were trying hard to save the Darfur peace talks from collapsing Sunday after the Sudanese government announced its agreement to unconditioned halt of its military operations in the Darfur region.
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EL-FASHER, Sudan  - A joint United Nations-African Union (AU) force took charge of peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday, seeking to end almost five years of fighting in the western Sudanese region.
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CENTURION, South Africa -- Many African countries want a regional peacekeeping mission to succeed in the Darfur region of Sudan, the site of the latest humanitarian crisis in the region, in part to show that the continent has the resolve and the ability to take care of its own problems. But so far, not many countries are offering to contribute ...
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ABUJA, Dec 11  -- African Union-sponsored peace negotiations on the crisis in the western Sudanese region of Darfur were to resume Saturday, a spokesman for the continental body told AFP.
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The Sudanese government is starting to address the crisis in Darfur, International Development Secretary Hilary Benn says.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 24  (IPS) - The European Union is beginning to take action over  the human rights crisis in Darfur  ahead of the Aug. 29 United  Nations deadline to the Sudanese government.
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The African Union (AU) was in a desperate move to put back on track peace negotiations on the crisis in the western Sudanese region of Darfur stalled by the withdrawal of rebel delegations, mediators said.