New Darfur force commander voices optimism
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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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President Omar al-Bashir's government on Monday hailed a new agreement with the United Nations over peacekeepers in Darfur as a diplomatic breakthrough for Sudan, but said serious differences remain over the force's makeup and command.
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan  al-Bashir welcomes U.N. support for an African Union force  monitoring a widely ignored truce in Sudan's violent Darfur  region, state media reported on Thursday.
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A Sudanese rebel commander in a camp in Darfur tells his troops he is hoping for peace. But just a few hours march away, young men say they are convinced Sudan wants to drive them off the land.
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EL FASHER, Sudan  - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the Darfur region of western Sudan on Wednesday, promising to step up pressure for a political solution to the festering conflict.
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The new leaders of the UK and France say they are prepared to go to Darfur to help peace efforts.
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The United Nationsâ top peacekeeping official told the Security Council Wednesday that the freshly deployed force in Darfur was in danger of failure.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 17 -- Retired Canadian army Lt. Gen. RomÃÂ¿o Dallaire, a former U.N. commander whose warnings of Rwandan genocide in the early 1990s went unheeded by U.N. leaders, advised the newly appointed leader of U.N. forces in Darfur to expect little backing from his political masters as...
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The U.N.'s new top envoy to Sudan flew into Khartoum on Tuesday, a year to the day after his predecessor was expelled.
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EL FASHER, Sudan -- 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 U.N. Secretary-General said on  Sunday he was encouraged by the &quot;credible progress&quot; he felt had  been made towards peace in Darfur during an Africa tour, but it  was too early to talk of tangible results.
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UN envoy Jan Eliasson said he was hopeful of a rapid reduction in violence in the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur after a series of meetings with government officials and rebel commanders this week.
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Sudan is optimistic that the U.N. Security Council will recognize its achievements in improving the humanitarian and security situation in troubled Darfur, Sudan's foreign minister said Thursday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon  arrived in Sudan on Monday to lay the groundwork for a solution  to the Darfur conflict through talks and deployment of  thousands of peacekeepers.
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The new United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur in Sudan is due to start its operations on Monday.
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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 African Union mission chief to Sudan says he hopes  all troops will be deployed by the end of the year.