New Darfur peacekeepers set to take over Jan 1
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A beefed-up joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur is set to take over from the current under-manned AU force on Monday in a bid to end years of bloodshed.
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The United Nations handed over to Sudan on Friday detailed plans for a Darfur peacekeeping force of more than 23,000 troops and police to protect civilians and use force to deter violence.
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African forces should be fully deployed to Sudan's troubled Darfur region by the end of the year despite some delays in building the infrastructure to house them, the new head of the African Union mission said on Saturday.
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A new joint African Union-United Nations force took over peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday from an AU mission which failed to stem nearly five years of conflict in western Sudan.
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Sudan&#39;s government and rebel groups  will start talks on October 27 in Libya to push for peace in  violence-torn Darfur before 26,000 peacekeepers deploy there,  the United Nations and Khartoum announced on Thursday.
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Sudan has accepted a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force of up to 23,000 troops and police for Darfur but some U.N. diplomats fear conditions may be attached.
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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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The U.N. Security Council is  expected to authorize up to 26,000 troops and police for Darfur  but implementation will take months providing the world body  finds enough personnel and Sudan cooperates.
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TURIN, Italy  - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon headed for Sudan on Monday to lay the groundwork for a solution to the festering Darfur conflict through talks and deployment of thousands of peacekeepers.
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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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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Thursday deploying United Nations peacekeepers in the conflict-wracked Darfur region would be the same as allowing foreign forces to occupy his country.
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Nigerian troops have begun arriving in Sudan to form part of an African Union (AU) force that will protect monitors observing a ceasefire between rebels and the Sudanese government.
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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 up to 20,000 peacekeepers to Sudan&#39;s war-torn region of Darfur.
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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 U.N. Security Council passed a resolution Thursday that would give the United Nations authority over peacekeepers in Darfur as soon as Sudan's government gives its consent &#151; which it has so far refused to do.
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Rwandan troops were airlifted on Sunday  to Sudan's Darfur as the first foreign force there, mandated to  protect observers monitoring a cease-fire between the Sudanese  government and rebels in the troubled western region.
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Sudan on Tuesday agreed to a combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force of more than 20,000 troops and police to be deployed in its troubled Darfur region after months of intense diplomacy.