Forces Boost Urged to Halt Darfur Killings
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Calls for the deployment of substantial African forces to Sudan to end the âslaughterâ in Darfur were agreed by Liberal Democrats today.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The African Union agreed yesterday to boost the number of peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region and send a contingent of civilian police to monitor efforts to end violence that has driven more than 1.5 million people from their homes.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council to strengthen African Union forces in the Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region and more than double it if a U.N. takeover of peacekeeping duties is approved.
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GENEVA : Humanitarian organisations expressed alarm over worsening security in Sudan&#39;s conflict-wracked Darfur region, where the UN refugee agency has been forced to cancel several missions.
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A renewed US push to end the tragedy in Sudan's Darfur region shows little promise of quick success, with Washington unwilling to put new teeth into its demand that the Khartoum government accept an aggressive UN peacekeeping force to halt the killing.
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UNITED NATIONS  - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for urgent action Thursday to stop attacks on civilians in western Sudan and announced he is sending UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour of Canada and a special adviser on genocide, Juan Mendes, to Sudan this weekend to see what can be done to provide better protection for civilians in the Darfur region.
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Rwanda's pledge of troops to protect civilians in Darfur should encourage other countries to press Sudan to accept more African Union troops to stop the killing there, Human Rights Watch said.
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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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U.N. officials worried on Thursday an end to the rainy season could lead to fresh fighting in Sudan's Darfur region and urged governments to do more to help speed African Union troops to the troubled area.
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The UN high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, is calling for a big increase in the number of United Nations peacekeepers, human rights monitors and aid agencies to ensure security in Darfur.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - In a goodwill gesture on the eve of peace talks in Nigeria, Sudan said Sunday it will cut the number of paramilitary forces operating in Darfur by 30 per cent in a bid to ease tensions in the troubled region, where an 18-month conflict has claimed the lives of an estimated 30,000 people.
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UNITED NATIONS - The African Union communicated to the UN Thursday its decision to send an expanded force of troops and police with a broad mandate to protect aid workers, monitors and civilians in Sudanâs strife-torn Darfur region.
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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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A European Union peacekeeping force to be  deployed in Central African Republic must act to halt the  killing of hundreds of civilians by government troops there  since mid-2005, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
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The African Union has approved plans for a big increase in its military intervention force in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur.
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A European Union peacekeeping force to be deployed in Central African Republic must act to halt the killing of hundreds of civilians by government troops there since mid-2005, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
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Several thousand military observers are urgently needed to improve security in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region, a UN envoy has said.