U.N.'s Ban sees slow, credible progress in Darfur
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The international community has made important strides toward defusing the four-year-old crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.
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Sudan's final rejection of a joint U.N.-African peacekeeping force in Darfur came as little surprise to many involved in failed international efforts to end the region's deadly violence.
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Security has improved inside camps in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region, but displaced villagers still face attacks and abuse when leave the camps, a U.N. team said Saturday, wrapping up a mission that could determine whether Sudan is hit with international sanctions.
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The Sudanese government has lifted its partial suspension of United Nations work in conflict-wracked Darfur, the U.N. said Monday.
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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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The situation is deteriorating  in the western Sudanese region of Darfur and an existing  peacekeeping force is too small to deal with it, U.N.  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.
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PARIS -- An international meeting on Darfur ended yesterday with promises to support peacekeeping efforts and a political process to stop the violence in western Sudan, but with few concrete steps.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised on Wednesday an agreement with Sudan on a large force for Darfur, but U.N. envoys acknowledged challenges over command structures and getting enough soldiers to the violent region.
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LAGOS, Sept. 6 (XinhuanetÂ£Â¬by Dai Adi, Lin Xiaochun) -- The road to sustainable peace in war-ravaged Darfur region, western Sudan, might be a long and tortuous one as the on-going African Union (AU)-sponsored
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While there is growing attention to ongoing genocide in Darfur, this has not translated into either a meaningful international response or an accurate rendering of the scale and evident course of the catastrophe.
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The U.N. peacekeeping chief on Wednesday called Sudan's acceptance of a joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur "a significant step forward," although he cautioned "it's not the end of the road."
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JUBA, Sudan  - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited south Sudan's capital Juba on Tuesday to try to speed implementation of the 2005 peace deal that ended Africa's longest civil war.
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Sudan&#39;s government made no progress last month in stopping attacks on civilians or prosecuting those behind atrocities in its western Darfur region, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday.
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The time has not yet come to impose international sanctions against the government of Sudan, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's envoy Jan Pronk said during a visit to Oslo.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon told the 15-member U.N. Security Council on Monday to  move quickly in authorizing up to 26,000 troops and police in  Darfur, an apparent reference to a dispute among members.
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The U.N. Secretary-General said on  Sunday he was encouraged by the &quot;credible progress&quot; he felt had  been made towards peace in Darfur during an Africa tour, but it  was too early to talk of tangible results.
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A U.N. envoy is expected to report enough progress by the Sudanese government in tackling the humanitarian crisis in the western Darfur region to satisfy the Security Council and avoid immediate U.N. sanctions, several U.N. diplomats said Tuesday.