African Union mediators order Sudan to halt Darfur offensive
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An African Union commission overseeing the shaky truce in the western Sudanese region of Darfur ordered Sudan's government to halt a two-week-old offensive against rebel forces and to withdraw.
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Africa News, ABUJA - The African Union said Sudan began withdrawing troops in Darfur before a Saturday deadline to end fighting in the western region, but Khartoum said the pull-back was conditional on rebels halting attacks.
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The African Union said on Saturday that  Sudan had started withdrawing troops in Darfur ahead of an  evening deadline to end fighting in the troubled region.
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African Union mediators worked Tuesday to break a rebel boycott of talks to bring peace to Darfur, the western region of Sudan where fighting has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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Sudan has asked African Union forces   monitoring a shaky truce in its violent Darfur region to leave   the country when their mandate ends on September 30, a   spokesman said on Sunday.
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Sudan said it ordered the military to stop fighting in the bloodied Darfur region even as rebels alleged new attacks and said they would uphold a boycott of stalemated peace talks.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The authorities pledged to halt military operations in Darfur, a United Nations spokeswoman said Sunday, but African Union officials said the government had kept up attacks on rebels in the region.
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The United States pressed Sudan's government on Monday to stop its latest military action in the western Darfur region and remove any obstacles preventing full deployment of U.N.-African Union peacekeepers.
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The Khartoum government on Wednesday approved to halt its military operations in Darfur to the west of Sudan. This was in a step that will push both the two main rebel movements in the region to give up their
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N'DJAMEMA  - Rebel groups from Sudan's violent Darfur region on Friday suspended a meeting to forge a common position for peace talks with the government, hoping more rebels would join in the consultations, a mediator said.
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Peace talks aimed at ending a 22-month-old crisis in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region, scheduled for Friday in Nigerian capital Abuja, has been postponed for a day, a spokesman for the African Union said.
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The African Union will bring Sudan's warring government and rebel armies into talks with regional power-brokers aimed at heading off a mounting humanitarian crisis in the province of Darfur.
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The United States pressed Sudan's  government on Monday to stop its latest military action in the  western Darfur region and remove any obstacles preventing full  deployment of U.N.-African Union peacekeepers.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 22 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday renewed her call for Sudan to halt a military offensive in Darfur and yield to international pressure to allow more than 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers to protect civilians there.
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Sudan said yesterday it ordered the military to stop fighting in the bloodied Darfur region even as rebels alleged new attacks and said they&#39;d uphold a boycott of stalemated peace talks.
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Sudan has asked African Union forces  monitoring a shaky truce in its violent Darfur region to leave  the country when their mandate ends on September 30, a  spokesman said on Sunday.
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The African Union confirmed Saturday that an attack took place on a Darfur camp and called on all parties to exercise restraint ahead of peace talks in Libya next week.