Critical U.N. aide now lauds U.S., U.K. on Darfur
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A United Nations official who  infuriated Washington by accusing the United States and Britain  of "megaphone diplomacy" over Sudan changed tack on Monday,  praising both countries for keeping the issue alive.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Britain&#39;s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew to Sudan Monday, part of a stepped-up world diplomatic offensive to end the humanitarian crisis in troubled Darfur.
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The U.S. State Department on   Wednesday described as "unsatisfactory" Sudan's official reply   to a personal message sent by President George W. Bush for   Khartoum to accept a U.N. force in Darfur.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "shocked and humbled" by a visit to a Darfur refugee camp, where thousands cheered him as he pledged to step up efforts to bring peace to the war-torn region.
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KHARTOUM, Aug 23  -- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew into Khartoum, vowing to impress on Sudanese leaders the international community&#39;s growing concern over the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
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UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett urges Sudan's president to work with the UN for peace in Darfur.
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J   an Egeland , the U.N. undersecretary for humanitarian affairs and the U.N. emergency relief coordinator, had a dual purpose for his visit to Washington this week. He told U.S. officials that American relief and food assistance has saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the Darfur region of Sudan and in Congo. But he also said there was a global trend of declining support for humanitarian efforts around the world.
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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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Sudan blunted U.S. pressure to accept  U.N. troops in Darfur, sidelining Washington's top diplomat on  Africa on Monday ahead of a critical U.N. Security Council  debate on taming Sudan's violent western 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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U.N. Security Council members on Sunday said they had assurances from Sudan that command and control of a joint African Union-U.N. force in Darfur would be under the world body.
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Khartoum's official media reported that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had congratulated President Omar al-Beshir on his government's efforts to resolve the crisis in Darfur as a Security Council deadline for action expired.
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The Security Council on Wednesday welcomed Sudan&#39;s nod for a joint African Union-UN force to end bloodshed in Darfur and urged &quot;timely and full implementation&quot; of the deal, after getting assurances that Khartoum means business.
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The U.S. ambassador to the  United Nations on Tuesday strongly criticized Sudan's decision  to promote to a government post a man Washington has accused of  coordinating Darfur's marauding militias.
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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.
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The United States on Tuesday called for full Sudanese cooperation with the deployment of international peacekeepers in the war-shattered Darfur region.
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Leaving for his much trailed trip to Sudan yesterday, the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said: &quot;I am keen to see for myself the situation on the ground in Darfur.