U.S. Sends 3 Planes to Aid Darfur Peace Force
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The U.S. Air Force on Friday sent three cargo planes to carry Rwandan forces and equipment to Darfur to assist an African Union peacekeeping effort in the violent region of western Sudan.
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Several dozen Nigerian troops flew to Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region on Thursday, the first of thousands of soldiers being deployed to bolster a tiny African Union peacekeeping force.
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Sudan agreed on Tuesday to a  combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force of  more than 20,000 troops and police to be deployed in its  troubled Darfur region after months of intense diplomacy.
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The United States Tuesday sent a large warship to Africa's oil-rich Gulf of Guinea for about a month to visit three countries and help train local navies, the U.S. military said.
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The United Nations' special envoy for Sudan appealed Wednesday for European logistical help in urgently deploying thousands of African peacekeepers to Darfur, where months of conflict has killed more than 50,000 people and uprooted a million more.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday the United States would provide financial assistance to African Union troops on a proposed mission to end the looting and killing in western Sudan.
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More than 30 aid workers have been airlifted to safety from a town in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region after fighting broke out and their base was bombed, a British charity says.
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The Air Force has sent three cargo planes to central Africa to provide transport and other help for African peacekeepers going to Darfur, the violent region of western Sudan where 70,000 people have died in 20 months of warfare.
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Three U.S. Air Force cargo planes and  120 U.S. troops landed in Rwanda on Saturday to transport  Rwandan soldiers and equipment to Darfur as part of an expanded  African Union peacekeeping mission in the violent region.
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The United States circulated a draft UN resolution on Wednesday that would back a beefed-up monitoring force for Sudan&#39;s conflict
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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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The United States and other nations are prepared to help move an expanded African peacekeeping force into position in Sudan's Darfur region to halt the bloodshed, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday.
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Sudan has accepted a United  Nations-African Union peacekeeping force of up to 23,000 troops  and police for Darfur but some U.N. diplomats fear conditions  may be attached.
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Thirty U.S. Air Force members from Europe arrived Thursday in Kigali, Rwanda, to prepare for a two-week airlift mission of Rwandan peacekeepers to the Darfur region of Sudan.
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The United States pressed Sudan on   Monday to accept a U.N. force in its troubled Darfur region, as   U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Khartoum its military   bombardment of the region was illegal.
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Sudan has agreed to the deployment of some 3,500 African troops in its war-torn region of Darfur. The soldiers, along with some 800 police officers, will be tasked with monitoring a shaky ceasefire between rebels and the government.
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KIGALI -- Three US Air Force cargo planes and 120 US troops landed in Rwanda yesterday to transport Rwandan soldiers and equipment to Darfur as part of an expanded African Union peacekeeping mission in the violent region. Several dozen soldiers unloaded boxes full of rifles and handguns on the tarmac of Kigali airport on the outskirts of the capital.