Darfur crisis dominates Africa-France summit
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Sudan's regime has stubbornly refused to let UN peacekeeping troops into Darfur, at an Africa-France summit that was also President Jacques Chirac's farewell to Africa.
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African Union heads of state meet to discuss the conflicts in Ivory Coast and Sudan's Darfur region.
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French citizens wait to depart to France at the airport of Abidjan , Ivory Coast, on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004. African leaders convened in an emergency summit on Ivory Coast&#39;s crisis on Sunday without this country&#39;s
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ABUJA : The African Union will bring Sudan&#39;s warring government and rebel armies into talks with regional power-brokers aimed at heading off a mounting humanitarian crisis in the province of Darfur.
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Protests are taking place in 30 countries to bring attention to the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will host  a summit on the troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur with  the presidents of Chad, Egypt and Nigeria, a Libyan government  source said on Tuesday.
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African Union mediators worked Tuesday to break a rebel boycott of talks to bring peace to Darfur, the western region of Sudan where fighting has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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The Sudanese government and rebel leaders need to be pushed to find a solution to the bloody conflict in Darfur, African foreign ministers said on Sunday ahead of a summit on the crisis.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Jan. 29 -- Bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region dominated discussion at the African Union summit Monday, blocking Sudan's bid to lead the 53-country group as the U.N. chief described scorched-earth military policies as "a terrifying feature of life" in the vast, arid area.
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French President Jacques Chirac has opened a French-African summit with a call for Sudan to accept an international peacekeeping force in war-torn western Darfur region.Comment
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President Jacques Chirac has urged Sudan to agree to a peace force for strife-torn Darfur at an Africa-France summit that is likely to be his last foray on the world stage.
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Top European Union officials met Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Saturday to try to find common ground on ways to end the military crisis in Darfur and ease one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
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The crisis in Darfur is a humanitarian disaster that threatens the entire region, French President Jacques Chirac said Thursday while urging Sudan to accept peacekeepers.Comment
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Leaders of Egypt, Chad, Nigeria and Libya met Sunday with Sudan's president to discuss ways to resolve the humanitarian crisis in his country's western Darfur region without sanctions.
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France is hosting its 24th Franco-African summit this week as critics slam its role in the region.
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Six African leaders, including the presidents of Sudan and Chad, began in Libya a mini-summit on Sudan's Darfur region, where internal strife is spilling over into Chad and the Central African Republic.
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The crisis in Darfur is a humanitarian disaster that threatens the entire region, French President Jacques Chirac said on Thursday while urging Sudan to accept peacekeepers.Comment