Darfur force 'may take all year'
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The planned peacekeeping force for Sudan's Darfur region will take most of 2008 to deploy fully, the UN says.
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Sudan has expressed its "total unconditional acceptance" of a hybrid international force for Darfur, but the world must keep up the pressure on Khartoum, Britain's U.N. envoy said on Tuesday.
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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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Sudan will allow African Union troops   to remain in its turbulent Darfur region but only if their AU   mandate was extended beyond September 30 and not as part of a   U.N. force, a presidential adviser said on Monday.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 20 -- The African Union said Wednesday that it would extend the mandate of its peacekeeping force in Darfur through the end of the year, ensuring that international troops will remain in the war-torn Sudanese province for now.
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UNITED NATIONS: Sudanâs Darfur region was heading for total anarchy and the United Nations would be blamed if the Security Council did not take action, a senior UN official warned on Thursday.
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Sudan's government is preparing a major offensive in Darfur, says the head of the African observer team.
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All sides in the conflict in Darfur  are ready to start talks to renegotiate a year-old peace accord  rejected by many Darfuris as inadequate, the top U.N.  humanitarian chief in Sudan said on Friday.
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The U.N. chief in Sudan said Thursday the government is unlikely to let U.N. peacekeepers in the country anytime soon, and the international community should instead push for the African Union force to remain in the war-torn region indefinitely.
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UN mission officials in Sudan said Friday they hope an expanded African force will be on the ground in Darfur by the end of October, after Sudan&#39;s foreign minister agreed to allow in 3,500 outside troops.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Sudan's Darfur region could fall into anarchy unless the 15-nation Security Council takes bold action and thousands of African Union troops arrive quickly, a senior UN official warned yesterday.
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The US and Britain are considering enforcing a no-fly zone over Sudan's war-torn Darfur region if the Khartoum government does not allow a UN-led peacekeeping force in, the State Department said.
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The warnings from the United Nations, Europe and the U.S. are dire: The war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan is headed toward disaster, and Sudan's government must allow in peacekeepers to prevent it.
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A deadline for Sudan's government to improve security in troubled Darfur is set to expire later on Monday.
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Sudan will come under pressure at a tripartite meeting in Addis Ababa next week to allow the deployment of a joint African Union-UN force in Darfur, a senior UN official said Wednesday.
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The U.S. warned Thursday that the Sudanese government could face further sanctions if it does not move quickly to approve a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur.
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KHARTOUM, 5 December 2004 - African forces should be fully deployed to Sudanâs 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 yesterday.