UN: Darfur force improving, needs help
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Darfur's peacekeeping force has resumed some patrols and returned to refugee camps since the U.N. took over this year, but the mission will ultimately fail without more troops and equipment, a top U.N. official said.
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The United Nations should beef  up African Union forces in Darfur with troops and logistical  support, even if Sudan does not allow a full U.N. operation, a  senior U.N. envoy said on Monday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - Sudan is optimistic that the  U.N. Security Council will recognize its achievements in  improving the humanitarian and security situation in troubled  Darfur, Sudan's foreign minister said Thursday.
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UNITED NATIONS &#151; Sudan insisted Friday that African countries have offered enough troops for a peacekeeping force in Darfur despite U.N. concerns that the mission will not be effective without specialized contributions from outside the continent.
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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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UNITED NATIONS -- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said yesterday that Sudan's government has not stopped attacks on &quot;terrorized and traumatized&quot; civilians in its Darfur region and urged the speedy deployment of an expanded international peacekeeping force.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is sending a top aide to Sudan to press his case for bolstering an African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur with substantial U.N. resources, a spokesman said on Monday.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan  - Security has improved in camps in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region, but displaced villagers still face attacks and abuse when they leave their camps, a UN team said Saturday as it completed a mission that could determine whether Sudan is hit with international sanctions.
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A UN envoy welcomes a move to deploy  African troops to Sudan's Darfur region, but says more are needed.
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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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More troops must be deployed in Darfur now, even without full equipment, the area's peacekeeping chief says.
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The United Nations called on Wednesday for a quick and "substantially" larger international monitoring force in Sudan's Darfur region, saying Khartoum had failed to stop attacks against civilians by Arab militia.
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Security has improved in camps in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region, but displaced villagers still face attacks and abuse when they leave their camps, a U.N. team said Saturday as it completed a mission that could determine whether Sudan is hit with international sanctions.
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The United Nations says it is concerned by Sudan&#39;s lack of progress in bringing security to Darfur, where more than a million people have fled their homes for fear of militia attack.
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Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary-general, has urged the Security Council to step up its efforts to end the conflict in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region, where growing violence
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for help to stop killings in Darfur.
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Peacekeepers from the African Union will be increased to help protect civilians in the afflicted Sudanese region of Darfur, the country&#39;s foreign minister said Thursday.