African leaders reject foreign intervention in Darfur conflict
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Calling the bloody humanitarian crisis in Darfur an &quot;absolute African issue,&quot; Sudan&#39;s president and four African counterparts rejected all foreign intervention Monday.
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ABUJA, Nigeria Aug. 23, 2004 - A senior Sudanese official on Monday rejected an immediate wider role for African Union troops in the troubled Darfur region, saying security there was the responsibility of Sudanese forces.
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has refused to accept an interim U.N. plan to bolster African troops in Darfur, calling for more negotiations despite an earlier agreement in principle.
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A Darfur rebel group said on Thursday it refused to return to African Union-sponsored peace talks in the Nigerian capital Abuja and rejected the pan-African body as mediator to end the 22-month-old conflict.
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Sudan has formally rejected an international conference on Darfur to be held in Paris this month because it was not consulted beforehand, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.
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The United Nations and the African Union have just seven weeks to persuade major rebel factions to attend new Darfur peace talks in Libya &#151; a tough job because a key rebel leader immediately rejected any negotiations until there is a cease-fire.
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Sudan's leader dismisses talk of genocide
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EL-FASHER, Sudan  - Darfur's two main rebel groups will not attend U.N.-African Union mediated peace talks in Libya, their leaders said on Friday, dashing any chance of an immediate deal to end 4-1/2 years of war in western Sudan.
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Not enough countries have contributed to the peacekeeping force in Darfur and the African Union is blocking some of those who have, diplomats said on the eve of a high-level meeting on Sudan on Friday.
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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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CANNES, France  - The leaders of Sudan, Chad and Central African Republic met on Thursday and declared they would not back rebels attacking each other's territory -- repeating a pledge that has failed to stop fighting in the past.
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Ethnic minority rebels in Darfur have rejected an attempt by the Sudanese government to divide them ahead of a new round of peace talks in Nigeria later this month, a Khartoum daily reported.
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EL-FASHER - Darfur's two main rebel groups will not attend UN-African Union mediated peace talks due to start in Libya today, their leaders said. Spokesmen for the Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudan Liberation Army-Unity faction said they took the step because mediators had not invited key rebel groups to the talks.
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Sudan's ruling party has rejected a proposed Security Council resolution to transfer peacekeeping duties in conflict-wracked Darfur to a U.N. force, saying it would violate national sovereignty, official media reported Thursday.
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Sudan on Wednesday rejected a US-sponsored UN Security Council draft resolution to punish it over a conflict in its western Darfur region, saying the measure was unfair and lacked balance.
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Darfur's two main rebel groups  will not attend U.N.-African Union mediated peace talks in  Libya, their leaders said on Friday, dashing any chance of an  immediate deal to end 4-1/2 years of war in western Sudan.
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The Sudanese army expressed opposition to the upgrading of an African Union protection mission newly arrived in the wartorn western region of Darfur into a full-blown peacekeeping force.