Aid workers get more access to Darfur
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Sudan has eased access to its troubled Darfur region for relief workers and supplies but hasn&#39;t disbanded the marauding militia that caused 1.5 million people to flee their homes
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The African Union is to begin  deploying more than 3,000 additional troops to Sudan's Darfur  region within the next two weeks, the head of the 53-member  organization's security organ said Wednesday.
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A Sudanese government offensive and a spate of attacks by rogue rebel groups have left relief organizations with less access to the suffering in Darfur than at any point in the war in the devastated region, according to the U.N.'s head of humanitarian affairs there.
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Egyptian presidential spokesmanMajid Abdu Fatah on Sunday called for more aid to be given to Sudanin order to help it fight the humanitarian crisis in the Darfurregion.
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The African Union plans to send more  troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended Darfur peacekeeping  mission, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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Sudan has signed an agreement to ensure the voluntary return of more than one million people displaced by fighting in the Darfur region and said it was giving Darfuris more say in local government.
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Darfur, the troubled western Sudan region, was barely a speck on the international horizon in October 2003 when Andrew Natsios, head of the U.S. foreign aid agency, traveled there to learn more about the area's developing humanitarian crisis.
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ABUJA (Nigeria), Nov. 9. - Sudan and Darfur rebels signed accords today to end hostilities and guarantee aid groupsâ access to 1.6 million civilians uprooted by conflict in the troubled western Sudan region of 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.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - Sudanese authorities have restored aid deliveries to a camp for 90,000 displaced people in Darfur, United Nations officials said, three days after soldiers reportedly closed the camp following a mob killing of an alleged pro-government militiaman.
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KIGALI,Rawanda, Aug 18, 2004 (RNA)-- The African Union has pledged to send more troops to Darfur, Sudan, to protect civilians in case militias resume attacks on them, official sources told RNA. &quot;This is essential in order to give ourselves sufficient ...
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The African Union (AU) has decided to expand the number of African mission in Sudan&#39;s Darfur to assist more effectively in the restoration of peace and security in the region, said an AU communique here on Thursday.
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ADDIS ABABA - One third of troop reinforcements taking part in an expanded African Union peacekeeping force have arrived in Sudan&#39;s western region of Darfur, the pan-African body said.
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Sudan's government and rebel representatives signed accords Tuesday meant to end hostilities and guarantee aid groups access to 1.6 million people uprooted by conflict in Sudan's bloodied western region of Darfur.
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UNITED NATIONS - The African Union communicated to the UN Thursday its decision to send an expanded force of troops and police with a broad mandate to protect aid workers, monitors and civilians in Sudanâs strife-torn Darfur region.
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Five aid workers have been arrested by Sudanese authorities in the troubled Darfur region but two of them have since been released, the Kirkens Noedhjelp (Norwegian Church Aid) humanitarian organization said.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Under the blazing noontime sun in this relief camp, Fatima Abdullah Abou does something she couldn&#39;t have done before the Darfur conflict began. She takes her patient, a young mother about to give birth, to get medical help at a local clinic manned by doctors for an international medical aid group, Relief International.