Darfur humanitarian crisis easing, UN says
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  While violence remains a major concern, the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region is easing and large-scale deaths from malnutrition and disease are likely to be averted as international assistance pours in, UN ...
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says a complete end to violence in Sudan&#39;s western region of Darfur is needed to convince hundreds of thousands of displaced people they can eventually return to their homes.
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The United Nations has suspended its humanitarian operations in Sudan's troubled South Darfur area following a shooting that killed two aid workers, the agency said Monday.
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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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NAIROBI, 30 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - Clashes between Sudanese government forces and rebels in North Darfur state have subsided and several thousand internally displaced persons (IDPs) who had fled their camps, have returned over the last few days, the UN said.
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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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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is supporting African Union efforts to bolster its monitoring and protection presence in Sudan&#39;s trouble Darfur region.
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The Sudanese government has made progress in meeting UN demands to end the Darfur crisis, Britain&#39;s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Tuesday during a trip to the Abu Shouk refugee camp in northern Darfur.
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Sudan's government said on Thursday it hoped to reach a peace deal in talks resuming on Friday with rebels in Darfur, where the United Nations says one of the world's worst humanitarian crises has unfolded.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The international community is &quot;getting nowhere&quot; with the crisis in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region, the US ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth, said.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Sudan agreed to an expanded peacekeeping force in the Darfur region yesterday, according to a communique approved by negotiators from Sudan, the United Nations, and the African Union.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told President Bush on Tuesday the United Nations is speeding up efforts to find a political solution to the four-year conflict in Darfur that has killed more than 200,000 people.
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Sudan&#39;s government says it hoped to reach a peace deal in talks resuming on Friday with rebels in Darfur, where the United Nations says one of the world&#39;s worst humanitarian crises has unfolded.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan  - Sudan's minister for humanitarian affairs said Thursday his government has made "serious progress" in improving security and humanitarian relief in the troubled region of Darfur, as a UN team prepared an assessment that could decide whether the African country would be penalized.
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A joint African-United Nations force took over peacekeeping duties in Darfur on Monday, a long-awaited change that is intended to be the strongest effort yet to solve the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - Sudanese authorities have restored aid deliveries to a camp for 90,000 displaced people in Darfur, United Nations officials said, three days after soldiers reportedly closed the camp following a mob killing of an alleged pro-government militiaman.
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The UN special envoy to Sudan has welcomed an African Union announcement that it will begin deploying armed peacekeepers to Darfur on Sunday.