UN seeks Ramadan "month of tranquility" for Darfur
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The United Nations urged warring   groups in Darfur on Thursday to lay down their weapons during   the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to let relief workers operate   in Sudan's battered west.
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Fighting between government and rebels troops in Darfur has decreased in the past month, but Arab militias still attack, rape and abduct villagers in the troubled region, the U.N. chief envoy to Sudan said Saturday.
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The United Nations has welcomed a proposal by Egypt to send 2,500 troops to Darfur as part of a joint UN-African Union force aimed at ending violence in western Sudan, a senior Egyptian diplomat said.
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The UN Security Council voted on Tuesday to hold a rare meeting in Africa next month to try to focus international attention on the Sudan, site of Africa's longest-running civil war.
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KHARTOUM, August 21 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Eight days before the expiry of the UN Security Council deadline on Darfur, Sudan said it would disarm militias in the troubled area gradually, and signed a deal with the United Nations saying it
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The U.N. Security Council will recommend that the world body fund a joint African Union-U.N. peacekeeping mission for Darfur, after receiving assurances it would be controlled by the U.N, envoys said on Sunday.
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United Nations chief Kofi Annan on  Tuesday demanded that the world body's human rights watchdog,  meeting in special session on Sudan's Darfur, send a clear  message that the "nightmare" of violence had to stop.
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UN and African Union officials will travel to Darfur this week to try to convince key rebel leaders to join peace talks aimed at resolving the crisis in the Sudanese province, the AU said Monday.
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Foreign tourists stroll in Suk El Muscir Market on the second day of the holy month of Ramadhan, Oct. 16, in Tripoli, Libya. Libya is hosting a summit on Sunday about the Darfur crisis in western Sudan.
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Back in Geneva following a weeklong visit to the troubled Darfur region of Sudan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today said the external security and humanitarian presence there should be quickly expanded.
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ABU SHOUK CAMP, Sudan  - Darfuris who have waited almost five years in miserable camps have high expectations for a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force due to deploy by the end of the year.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP-CP) - Sudan said today that the UN chief didn&#39;t give it enough credit for its efforts to restore calm in Darfur and get help to the region&#39;s people, and said it hoped the Security Council would take greater notice.
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers appealed to Khartoum and ethnic minority rebels to set aside their differences Sunday, as he launched a tour of Sudan's devastated western region of Darfur with an appeal for peace.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council will resume its special session on Sudan's strife-torn region of Darfur, with member states still divided despite pleas for unity and urgent action by Secretary General Kofi Annan and other top UN officials.
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Sudan should grant autonomy to the western Darfur region in order to stop the violence there, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, said Friday.
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ABUJA : Sudan will ignore a UN Security Council deadline to end militia attacks in Darfur by the end of the month and instead resolve the crisis through African Union peace talks, Khartoum&#39;s chief negotiator said.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday he aimed to lay the foundations of lasting peace in violence-racked Darfur during a tour he will make next week of Sudan, Chad and Libya.