Sudan Government launches Darfur offensive
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The Sudanese Government has launched an offensive in the western region of Darfur and appears to be preparing further military action despite promises to respect a truce, the commander of the African Union (AU) observer force said.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan's government has ordered troops in three areas of Darfur to observe an immediate cease-fire, state media reported yesterday, and an international observer said the government will ask rebels to do the same.
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The Sudanese government pledged Wednesday to cease a military offensive in its western Darfur region in a bid to prompt the two main rebel groups to end a boycott of African Union
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A rebel group in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region says the government is responsible for an upsurge in fighting there in violation of a ceasefire.
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UN chief Kofi Annan blasted a Sudanese government onslaught against rebels in strife-torn Darfur as Security Council members vented mounting exasperation with Khartoum's refusal to accept a UN takeover of peacekeeping there.
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Large quantities of arms and ammunition  have poured into Darfur in the last two weeks and the  government appears to be preparing for a major military  offensive, the African Union (AU) said on Friday.
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Sudanese troops and helicopter gunships launched another offensive against rebels in the Darfur region yesterday, breaking a deadline for fighting to end.
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NAIROBI, 10 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - The African Union (AU) on Friday strongly criticised Sudan&#39;s government and rebel groups for launching attacks in December and late November respectively in the strife-torn western region of Darfur, ahead of a new round of
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Sudan's government kept up attacks on rebels in Darfur on Saturday, defying a deadline set by African Union mediators for an end to active hostilities, AU officials said.
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Khartoum said on Wednesday the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), which is bound by a cease-fire in Darfur, was involved in an attack this week on government forces near the troubled western region.
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The new joint AU-UN peacekeeping force comes under attack for the first time in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Sudan stuck to its guns despite mounting international pressure to accept UN peacekeepers in war-torn Darfur where rebels said the latest government offensive has left at least seven people dead.
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The Sudanese government is preparing a fresh assault on the rebel groups that refused to sign a peace agreement.
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A U.N. human rights mission on Monday  accused Sudan's government of orchestrating and taking part in  war crimes in Darfur and called for urgent international action  to protect civilians there.
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An assault on the town of Sirba in Sudan's Darfur region earlier this month was apparently "a deliberate and unprovoked attack" by government forces against innocent civilians, a United Nations human rights official said Friday.
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The Sudanese government is indiscriminately bombing civilian-occupied villages in Darfur, a human rights group charged. France on Thursday raised the idea of sending U.N. peacekeepers to the war-torn region even without Sudanese permission.
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Astronomical quantities of arms and  ammunition have poured into Sudan's Darfur region in the last  two weeks and the government is poised for a major military  offensive, the African Union said on Friday.