Bush says Darfur situation dire
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WASHINGTON, Dec 8 ( President Bush on Friday pressed for international action to address a "dire" situation in Darfur region of Sudan where more than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced by fighting.
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President Bush pressed Darfur rebel  leader Minni Arcua Minnawi on Tuesday to help implement a deal  aimed at ending the violence in western Sudan, the White House  said.
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The crisis in Sudan's Darfur region,  where more than a million people have fled their homes to  escape violence, will worsen and the death toll could hit  300,000 this year, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
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Bloomberg - May 29 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush imposed economic sanctions against Sudan in a bid to curb the violence in Darfur and called on the United Nations to step up financial pressure on a leader who hasn&#39;t stopped what the U.S. describes as genocide in the African country.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has expressed grave concern over a recent increase in violence in the Darfur region of Sudan and called on both sides to honor a cease-fire.
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KHARTOUM : British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he handed the Sudanese leadership a list of demands to ease what he called the &quot;terrible&quot; situation in the war-torn western region of Darfur.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan -- The former US ambassador to the United Nations visited a camp for the displaced in the troubled Darfur region yesterday and sharply criticized Sudan, the United Nations, the US government, and the international community as doing too little to stem the humanitarian crisis.
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US President George W. Bush, meeting with his special envoy for Sudan, said Thursday that efforts to deploy a UN force in Darfur had moved "too slowly" and that he hoped to speed up the process.
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President Bush will impose new economic sanctions against Sudan and call for a U.N. resolution to compel the country to stop stalling international efforts to halt the bloodshed in Darfur, senior administration officials said.
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US President George W. Bush's special envoy for Darfur aims to travel to Europe and Sudan later this month in an effort to overcome obstacles to sending UN peacekeepers there, US officials said.
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The US State Department refuted suggestions from Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry that the United States under President George W. Bush had been &quot;toothless&quot; in its response to the crisis in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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US President George W. Bush on Wednesday said he was moving ahead with tighter sanctions on Sudan, after the government there agreed to a joint African Union-UN force to end bloodshed in Darfur.
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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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Bloomberg - June 6 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush said he&#39;s frustrated with the pace of United Nations efforts to halt the bloodshed in Darfur and repeated that the U.S. supports taking stronger steps against the government of Sudan.
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US President George W. Bush told the United Nations its credibility hinged on getting a UN-led force to Darfur soon, even over Sudan's objections, to end &quot;unspeakable violence&quot; there.
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration for the first time on Thursday called attacks in Sudan's Darfur region by government-backed Arab militia against black Africans "genocide."   The designation by Secretary of State Colin Powell came as a U.S. proposal in the U.N...
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United States President George W Bush and his Democratic presidential opponent Senator John Kerry have both come out against the commitment of US troops in the troubled Darfur region of the Sudan.