AU Says Sudan Begins Troop Withdrawal from Darfur
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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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The African Union reaffirms it will pull out of Darfur, after Sudan rejected  UN plans to take control of the mission.
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The new United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur in Sudan is due to start its operations on Monday.
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The African Union said it would leave the Darfur region by the end of the month if Sudan did not allow U.N. peacekeepers to take over its mission.
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KHARTOUM -- Sudan yesterday asked African Union forces monitoring a shaky truce in Darfur to leave the country by Sept. 30, as the government launched a new offensive that threatens a return to full-blown war. Khartoum last week rejected a UN Security Council resolution to deploy peacekeeping troops to replace the cash-strapped and ill-equipped AU force, and instead has moved ...
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An elite contingent of 50 Nigerian  soldiers left Nigeria on Thursday for Darfur, the first stage  in the deployment of 3,000 extra African Union (AU) troops to  monitor a shaky cease-fire in the western Sudanese region.
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Astronomical quantities of arms and  ammunition have poured into Sudan's Darfur region in the last  two weeks and the government is poised for a major military  offensive, the African Union said on Friday.
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Thousands of African troops were preparing for deployment in Darfur yesterday after Sudan agreed a 10-fold expansion of the African Union force in the region.
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The Sudanese Government has launched an offensive in the western region of Darfur and appears to be preparing further military action despite promises to respect a truce, the commander of the African Union (AU) observer force said.
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Troops from Chad entered Sudan's Darfur region in pursuit of Chadian rebels Friday as the U.N. and humanitarian aid groups prepared to pull some workers out of a key border town, fearing an imminent battle.
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Sudan says AU peacekeepers must leave Darfur by 30 September, as its steps up its offensive against rebels.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Sept. 3 -- Sudan on Sunday asked African Union forces monitoring a shaky truce in its Darfur region to leave the country by Sept. 30, as the government launched a new offensive threatening a return to full-blown war.
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A beefed-up joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur is set to take over from the current under-manned AU force on Monday in a bid to end years of bloodshed.
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Astronomical quantities of arms and ammunition have poured into Sudan&#39;s Darfur region in the last two weeks and the government is poised for a major military offensive, the African Union said on Friday.
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SUDANESE troops launched air strikes against a Darfur village, contrary to reports Khartoum was withdrawing its forces from the region to meet an African Union ceasefire deadline, an AU spokesman said today.
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A 155-strong company of Nigerian infantry flew out of Abuja, heading for the war-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur to join an African Union force protecting ceasefire monitors.
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A new joint African Union-United Nations force took over peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday from an AU mission which has struggled to stem nearly five years of brutal conflict in the western Sudanese region.