U.S. envoy urges Darfur deal, democratic elections
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U.S. envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios  said on Tuesday only a negotiated deal and democratic elections  would bring peace to Sudan's western Darfur region, where  Washington says genocide has taken place.
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The United States on Tuesday called for full Sudanese cooperation with the deployment of international peacekeepers in the war-shattered Darfur region.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told President Bush on Tuesday the United Nations is speeding up efforts to find a political solution to the four-year conflict in Darfur that has killed more than 200,000 people.
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A leading Democratic senator submitted a resolution calling for the appointment of a special US envoy to Sudan and the creation of a no-fly zone in the country's violence-wracked Darfur region.
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The African Union's envoy to Sudan said he would continue to negotiate with parties which did not sign a peace deal this year aimed at ending the conflict in the troubled region of Darfur.
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A deal to end Sudan's southern war that  is due to be signed on Sunday must boost efforts to solve  Darfur's "terrible conflict," Secretary of State Colin Powell  said on Saturday.
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US Sudan envoy Andrew Natsios on Thursday began a 10-day visit to Sudan, focused on the war-torn western region of Darfur and a fragile peace deal in the south of the country.
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The leading U.S. diplomat for Africa met with Kenya's president and the head of the opposition on Saturday to encourage a peaceful resolution after the disputed presidential election that sparked days of deadly riots.
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A top U.N. envoy said on Friday  a landmark peace agreement ending Sudan's two-decade old war in  the south would crumble if violence in Darfur persisted.
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The ranking Sudanese diplomat in Canada yesterday accused US President George W. Bush of trying to buy votes from African-Americans to support his re-election bid by branding the crisis in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region a genocide.
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Darfur peace talks will be a "tremendous challenge" requiring all sides to make compromises to settle the conflict in Sudan's remote west, the top U.S. diplomat in Sudan said on Wednesday.
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The United States next week intends to tell Sudan and its southern opposition that offers of aid may be withdrawn if an agreement is not signed soon to end Africa's longest-running civil war, its U.N. ambassador said.
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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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N'DJAMENA  - A senior U.S. envoy held talks in   Chad on Tuesday on the country's political situation and oil   policy and on the threat of spillover from the Darfur conflict   in neighboring Sudan.
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Ambassadors from the UN Security Council will head to Kenya for a rare meeting outside New York aimed at pressing for an end to Sudan's long-running civil war and the separate crisis in Darfur.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she pressed Sudan's government to accept a U.N. force in the war-torn region of Darfur, warning improved U.S. relations depended on it.
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Washington's top diplomat for Africa hoped to meet both sides in Kenya's political crisis on Saturday to seek an end to ethnic unrest that has killed more than 300 people and shattered the country's peaceful image.