Attack Seen As Setback For U.N. In 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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Sudan's decision to expel African   Union peacekeepers from Darfur rather than allow them to come   under U.N. command leaves 3 million victims exposed and at   risk, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday.
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The top U.N. humanitarian  official accused Sudan on Wednesday of deliberately hindering  relief aid in Darfur, attacking villages and arming brutal  militia to combat rebels and bandits.
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Some relief agencies have been forced to scale back aid operations and relocate staff due to security incidents in the three Darfur states, the United Nations mission in Sudan said today.
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Security has improved inside camps in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region, but displaced villagers still face attacks and abuse when leave the camps, a U.N. team said Saturday, wrapping up a mission that could determine whether Sudan is hit with international sanctions.
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Sudanese troops shot at a "clearly marked" United Nations convoy in Darfur, apparently mistaking it for a group of rebels in the first attack against the peacekeeping mission since it began this month, U.N. officials said Tuesday.
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The United Nations warned on Wednesday  it would not be able to cope if conditions do not improve in  Sudan's Darfur region, devastated by violence which has driven  more than 1.5 million from their homes.
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For the second time in seven weeks, the UN has bared its teeth at Sudan for continuing attacks on civilians in Darfur. Get all of today&#39;s headlines, or alerts on specific topics.
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Conditions for 1.2 million Sudanese displaced in Darfur continue to worsen amid violent attacks, spreading disease, and heavy rains which wreak havoc with aid convoys, United Nations agencies said on Tuesday.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan accused the Sudanese government on Thursday of failing to protect citizens in Darfur from killings, rape and other violence, warning it may be held accountable for those acts in the future.
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GENEVA -- A UN human rights team criticized the international community yesterday for failing to halt atrocities in Darfur, saying in a sharply worded report that the United Nations must act now to protect civilians from a campaign of violence orchestrated by Sudan's government.
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KHARTOUM, Aug 18  - The United Nations said on Wednesday it was very concerned by Sudan&#39;s lack of practical progress in bringing security to Darfur, where more than a million people have fled their homes for fear of militia ...
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The UN Security Council and the United States Wednesday slammed a recent attack on a supply convoy of UN-African Union troops in Darfur as a senior UN official said Sudan admitted responsibility for the incident.
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The special UN representative for Sudan said Thursday he is concerned about military action around El Fasher, the capital of the troubled Darfur region.
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Raids by Sudanese forces and Arab militiamen have worsened a desperate situation in Darfur, rights groups say, but the United Nations said Khartoum was making serious efforts to keep pledges to curb the violence.
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THE crisis in Darfur is now affecting at least two million people as violence and insecurity in the war-torn region of Sudan intensify, the United Nations warned last night.
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United Nations officials report security breaches in internally displaced people and refugee camps in Sudan&#39;s embattled Darfur region and neighboring Chad.